I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
Larry David makes me laugh.
I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
I listen to gospel music.
I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business I couldn't see that.
The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.
I do consider myself part of black history.
I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
