Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.