When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business I couldn't see that.