The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

Larry David makes me laugh.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.