You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out.

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.

I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

I don't know how I feel right now.

I don't know where to find a good guy. I just think that they're around and I think you have to be good and at some point you'll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

I love basketball.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

I wanna sing about something that's sexy and edgy.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

I'm a woman now.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

I've just got to get that album out. I have to get it out, if it's the last thing I do.

I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody.

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

Music is all I know.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years. I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it's real. I don't want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.