To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.

I cannot turn my life back around. I'm already a public figure, I'm famous... It's like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.

I'm gonna be famous forever.

I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men. I'm talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don't answer my calls.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

That was an organic relationship. He reached out to me, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe somebody like Laquan Smith wants to put his clothes on me.' He comes from a small place, and he has big dreams, and what I like about him the most is that his clothes curve with your body.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

Summertime, this is the time that you flex.

I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.

People should listen to my music because it's good.

I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.

Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.