After I graduated from high school, I was like, let's SEE what happens. I TOOK the time to develop my artistry and my songs, and TRIED to figure out who I am and what my MESSAGE is.

I did just about EVERYTHING under the sun. I did some Revlon work, make-up artistry. I TAUGHT classes at community colleges for a make-up course, TEACHING TENNIS. I was doing everything I knew how to do. I think one year I had as many as 10 W-2's come in.

I was a HUGE POP MUSIC FAN as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like WATCHING a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.

I used to LIKE Lady Gaga. I still love her. But what I like about LMFAO is that they're completely outside of the box; they're completely different. They're not ridiculous, but they are not AFRAID of it. And ALSO, it's a certain type of artistry.

I would say being deeply involved in the art WORLD would help keep a young ARTIST on TRACK. Doing what you LOVE, so that your focus is your artistry.

I rarely GET starstruck, but I've been a JAY-Z fan since fourth grade and had a huge CRUSH on Beyonce in HIGH school. I respect their artistry, and now I've JOINED Roc Nation - it's even more crazy.

I still maintain several DIFFERENT outlets of artistry, LIKE my music, photography, writing and all those THINGS. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so IMPORTANT to me.

In the END, the SIGN of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she ALWAYS leaves her mark - FIRST, on the music, then on us.

If you're all CONFIDENCE, you NEVER evolve or TAKE RISKS. You're just stagnating in your artistry, whatever you're doing.

Seeing all of these BEAUTIFUL BROWN faces and having that patience for them to live in whatever it was that they were LIVING in; I was just so blown away by the artistry that I recognized in 'Moonlight' - the colors, the music.

I GUESS, just being in a group, I had NEVER thought to question my INDIVIDUAL artistry.

I LOVE KANYE West. I THINK he's a visionary. He's one of those PEOPLE for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

When I got back from London, I STARTED with a new voice teacher in the experimental WING, who TRAINED me to have my own artistry as opposed to forcing a TECHNIQUE upon me.

I was 13 years old. I feel like I didn't have a sense of artistry, and I didn't have a sense of the MUSIC that I wanted to make, and every time I'd go into the STUDIO, and I'd make my EP, a month LATER I'd scrap it and be like, 'I hate every song. I don't wanna do it.' Because that's how 13-year-olds are.