“To me, music is spiritual. So it moves you in, like, a weird way that you cannot teach in school.”

I don’t promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

Just reflecting in the shower one day. Thinking about what role I played in my past relationships & why I needed to work on myself as a person.

I admire the inner peace I found.

We all have insecurities, but you have to know you’re beautiful.

So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

You don’t have to feel the need to put somebody down to make yourself feel better.

I do not see myself as a female rapper anymore. I see myself as a rapper.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

The Bible tells us that jealousy is as cruel as the grave.

I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.

Always laughing but never playing. So even when you see me laughing, don’t play wit me.

If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care.

The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, “It’s too loud!”

If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.