Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.

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

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

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.