I really wanted to call this album Teenage Wet Dream.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

I have a second chance on life.

I have a lot of ambition.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!

I went from zero to my own hero