I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

Larry David makes me laugh.