I want to be cutting-edge.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.