It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

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

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.

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.