Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots.

At heart I am a warrior.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That's not what I'm trying to do. I love 'hood' music, but my talent is as a singer. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'

When I was in Nashville, I went to our Macy's and went and tried on all the Hannah Montana stuff. Then I said, 'This is weird, I'm wearing my face.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.