There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

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.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.