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

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

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.

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.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

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.