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

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.

I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

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.

No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.