I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Larry David makes me laugh.

The fact is that everyone at the labels wants to do what everyone else is doing. You have to look like her; you have to be like her; you have to sing like her, and no one can express themselves. I look at Rihanna and I am so proud of her. She speaks loudly! You have to stand up and clap. She expresses herself through fashion. She actually can sing. And her songs mean something, even to me, you know?