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" As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage. "

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" I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music. "

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" 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. "

" I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself. "

" There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short. "

Life Is Too Short

" Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know? "

" I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. "

" Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. "

" You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. "

" When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about. "

" I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for. "

" Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends. "

" I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. "

" I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest. "

" It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary. "

" Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it. "

" I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.' "

" I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him. "

" I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up. "

" When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward. "

" So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things. "

" Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. "

" Believe in yourself when nobody else does. "

Believe In Yourself

" I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked. "

" I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing. "

" It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. "

" No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing. "

" I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. "

" Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live. "