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.

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.

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.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials 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.