If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks