The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

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

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.

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.