The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.