I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

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.

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

My career doesn't get harder because when you have something to share, you have something to share. And when it's a trial or a situation that you triumph out of, you have to - because this is the relationship I started with my fans on the My Life album in 1994. You have to share in order for people to see how you came through it, or how you're dealing with having thoughts of doubting yourself. What songs are gonna help you? What lyrics are gonna pull you out of your slump?

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

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.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.