I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

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.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

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

It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.