Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.