You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'