Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.