when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.