Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

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.

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

Larry David makes me laugh.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.