Now Everybody Let Me Hear You Say

I Just Embrace All People Of All Lifestyles And I Don't Tell Them They Are Bad People. And I Say Girls Are Beautiful And Girls Are Sexy And They Need To Be Told That, And If They Don't Have Anyone To Tell Them That And Mean It, I'm Gonna Tell Them That. But I Feel Like People Always Wanna Define Me And I Don't Wanna Be Defined.

I Feel Like [throughout] My Entire Career And Life, That I've Been Judged By People Who Really Did Not Know Me. But I Definitely Think That They Probably Were Right To Assume What They Had Assumed About Me, Because There Was So Little To Go On Out There. If You Only See Videos Of Me Being Crazy And Hearing Little Things Here And There, Then Obviously You're Not Going To Have Any Idea Who I Really Am.

I'm Just Happy That 'idol' Producers Gave Me A Shot On The Show And To Be Able To Show Who I Really Was, Because I Feel Like I'm Every Single Woman.

My Goal The Whole Time Has Been For People To See Me As A Stand-alone Artist. I Came Out With Young Money, The Biggest Hip-hop Label In The World At The Time. And Then It Was, 'how Do I Branch Away From Lil Wayne?'

When I Was Younger I Didn't Have Much Financially, Like We Couldn't Afford A Lot Of Stuff And I Remember Seeing Little Girls' Rooms On Tv And They'd All Be Pink. I Didn't Have My Own Room, I Shared With My Brother, So I Would Have This Daydream And Imagine That One Day I Could Have My Own Room And It Would All Be Pink, Like Cinderella's.