Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

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.

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.