You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

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.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.

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?

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.