From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.

I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.