'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

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 felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.