We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

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 like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

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.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

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.