It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

The fact is that everyone at the labels wants to do what everyone else is doing. You have to look like her; you have to be like her; you have to sing like her, and no one can express themselves. I look at Rihanna and I am so proud of her. She speaks loudly! You have to stand up and clap. She expresses herself through fashion. She actually can sing. And her songs mean something, even to me, you know?

Larry David makes me laugh.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.