I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.

I want to be the black Madonna.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.