When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.

A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.