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

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.