In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

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.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.