I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

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 can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

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

This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.