When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

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

When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

I do consider myself part of black history.

My career doesn't get harder because when you have something to share, you have something to share. And when it's a trial or a situation that you triumph out of, you have to - because this is the relationship I started with my fans on the My Life album in 1994. You have to share in order for people to see how you came through it, or how you're dealing with having thoughts of doubting yourself. What songs are gonna help you? What lyrics are gonna pull you out of your slump?