“I’m a funny person, but I take my music seriously.”

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 want God to come see me in my dreams when I take my nap so I can kiss his feet and tell him how much I love him.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.

Bring up my past and everything I said YOU CANT BREAK ME.

Say yes to everything. ‘You want me to buy you some food?’ Yes. ‘You want me to buy you a car?’ Yes.

We might as well be true with ourselves.

I’m an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

People should listen to my music because it’s good.

That’s why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.