“The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.”

If you say that you’re humble, you’re not humble. You gotta wait until somebody tells you that you’re humble.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

I cannot turn my life back around. I’m already a public figure, I’m famous. It’s like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.

I’m gonna be famous forever.

It’s never too early to get married now.

Music never felt like a job.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My personality is humongous.

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

I’m going to enjoy every little tiny moment with my family cause when crunch time comes it gets really lonely.

I just feel like I influence people because I’m like – I was practically homeless.

I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.

I’ll do something that brings me a check.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

I’m forever poppin shit pulling up and dropping shit.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don’t just want to do this for temporary money.

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There’s so much power and often very little accountability.

In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn’t give kids a chance.

I work, and then I leave the office, and I’m with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don’t feel like I’m exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.

You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.