I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

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.