That’s the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that’s all they’re gonna keep wanting from you.
I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
It’s OK showing yourself some love.
I’m searching for a real love.
Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.
You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you’re going to sing them, and even sometimes props.
I wouldn’t adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn’t feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
Cause I’m no better than you, you, or you. And I can’t get on no throne and preach, ’cause I’m not God.
I don’t listen to people’s opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
Don’t go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.
Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you’re up-and-coming or you’ve been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I’m not giving them the satisfaction.
For the first time in my life, I’m proud of myself.
As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.
I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.
When I was a child I didn’t care about getting an education, and I didn’t finish high school.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.