I Don't Listen To People's Opinions. I

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.

I Cannot Save The World, That's Not What I'm Trying To Do. I Guess I'm Just Trying To Walk The Walk And Be An Example To Those That Want It. Not Everybody Does, But If Mary J Blige Can Come Out Of That Same Hole You Were In, Then You Can Do It Too - That's My Goal: To Do That Without Saying It, But Actually Live It.

If We Didn't Have Understanding Of Our Journey, We Wouldn't Be Able To Go On. We'd Be Stuck, Like, 'why Me?'

I Do Consider Myself Part Of Black History.

I Care About Me Now. When I Didn't Care About Me, I Was, Like, 'why Is This Going Wrong? Why Is My Life So Bad?' But When You Don't Care About Yourself, Nobody Else Is Going To Care About You. So I Learned To Love Myself, Even If Nobody Else Does.