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.

Larry David makes me laugh.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

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

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.