God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.