"For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me."

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

"I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough."

"I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous."

"When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it."

"I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way."

"I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus."

"I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."

"I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on."

"Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar."

"Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves."

"I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes."

"As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see."

"Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law."

"Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give."

"Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name."

"Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed"

"Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem."

"I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want."

"Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am."

"I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch."

"Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it."

"I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually."

"Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit"

"My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke."

"My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke."

"I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that."

"I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond."

"In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff."

"Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice."

"Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years."

"It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes."

"I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber."

"I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about."

"I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real."

"I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings."

"I want people to feel like they can do anything."

"Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected."

"Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to."

"I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it."

"God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it."

"I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art."

"I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art."

"To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times."

"Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it."

"I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real."

"I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot."

"I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that."

"It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher."

"Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?"