The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

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.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.