I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.