“I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.”

All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.

I’m a total performer.

I don’t want to abandon one work for the other, and I don’t think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

It’s fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

People are gonna look up to me because I’m young, black, and female.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it’s always cool. The kids are amazing.

I know that people think I’m sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It’s wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn’t much that can be said right now.

There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album – to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can’t even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there’s nothing better than that.

It’s Friday and I’m ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative.

Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you’re destined to become.

So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.