I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures.

Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

I'm not sexually confused in any way. I'm very much - the word is pansexual.

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

Just because you're an artist doesn't give you an excuse to be an asshole.