You Can't Turn A Bad Girl Good,

Little Brothers Ring Fingers Get Cut Up To Show Mothers They Really Got Em.

Without The Work, The Magic Won’t Come.

I Couldn't Even Think About Wanting To Be Something Else; I Wouldn't Let Myself Visualize Another Life. But I Wrote Because I Couldn't Stop. It Was A Release, A Mental Exercise, A Way Of Keeping Sane.

I Got Mouths To Feed Til They Put Flowers On Me.

I Grew Up In Marcy Projects In Brooklyn, And My Mom And Pop Had An Extensive Record Collection, So Michael Jackson And Stevie Wonder And All Of Those Sounds And Souls Of Motown Filled The House.