Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

I would love to direct videos and that's what it keeps moving towards, but I have to stop being scared in order to do that.

I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream and accomplish some of your goals, but I would never want to do a show where I am preaching to anyone because I do not like being preached at. I want to learn right along with my audience and every show will be a collaborative effort. I am so thankful to Debra Lee and everyone at the BET Network for providing me with this unique opportunity and platform.

I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.