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

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

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

I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.