As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

I just love food, period.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

It's OK showing yourself some love.

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.