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.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.

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.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.