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

I do consider myself part of black history.

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.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

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

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

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.