Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.