If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I want to be cutting-edge.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.