“My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.”

“In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.”

“Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.”

“Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.”

“It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'”

“When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.”

“Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.”

“You get educated by traveling.”

“Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.”

“There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.”

“I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.”