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" I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. "

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" If you got talent, you just have to do you. "

" When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot. "

" A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else. "

" I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through. "

" I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping. "

" I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college. "

" Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. "

" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "

" Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition. "

" I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. "

" When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh. "

" I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show. "

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" I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland. "

" There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on. "

" My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. "

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" I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated. "

" If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life. "

" I guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff. "

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" You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. "

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