Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose.

I still don't think I'm really a beautiful person, but I know that I can be beautiful inside.

My fan mail is what keeps me going.

In the beginning, yes I did go back... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.