In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

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.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.