There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.