Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

The fact is that everyone at the labels wants to do what everyone else is doing. You have to look like her; you have to be like her; you have to sing like her, and no one can express themselves. I look at Rihanna and I am so proud of her. She speaks loudly! You have to stand up and clap. She expresses herself through fashion. She actually can sing. And her songs mean something, even to me, you know?

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.