I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.