I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!

I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.