If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.