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.

In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.