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.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

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.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.