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

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

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.

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

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'