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“It’s really hard being strong because when people see that you’re strong they want to bring you down. They say negative things about you, and they are intimidated when they see your strength. But you cannot let people get you down. You have to continuously pray, stay positive – even when everybody else is negative.”
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“When I was a teenager, my dad got my sister and I this karaoke machine and I would rewrite everyone’s songs and harmonize and tape it. I had my own studio karaoke. Then we started going into the studio. We had songwriters and producers since the age of nine, and I would give little input, but I was a kid, I didn’t know that I was helping. At about 13 or 14 I wrote my first song completely by myself, and then I started going into the studio on my off-time. It was just me alone, writing the songs and my dad was secretly playing the songs for record labels. I was really mad at him because they were just for me. But, because of that I got Independent Women placed on the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack and ended up winning Songwriter of the Year with ASCAP.”
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"I always held back in Destiny's Child, because I was comfortable in a group and felt that I didn't have to do anything 100 percent, because there were other people onstage with me. I would not lose myself or go all the way. The first step to was ‘Dangerously in Love.’ I just wanted people to really hear me, hear my voice and my tastes. For the first time, I wasn't afraid, I didn't feel limited. I wanted people to hear my range, because I can sing like a rapper, I can flow, I can sing soul songs, I can do rock, and I wanted people to hear that."
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"The first time we worked with [Rodney Jerkins] we wrote Say My Name to a track that we didn't like. I don't think he liked it either. There was just too much stuff going on in it. It just sounded like this ... jungle. I don't even know to this day how we wrote that song over that track. It wasn't going to make the album, and then when we were doing the photo shoot for the record my dad came in to the studio and said, 'Rodney's done a new mix of that song that you hate but you just have to take a listen to it.' He played the mix to us and we couldn't even focus on anything. He had turned it into an amazing, timeless R&B record. It was just excellent. It was one of the best songs we ever had, one of the best he's ever produced. It felt right from that moment on."
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“I don't play any instrument. I have writers that I write with, or I have writers that will send me a full song, and I'll rearrange it - change the second verse, change the melody, keep a chord that I like, and recreate it. Just depends. I might bring in whoever I think can help the song. When I have just a beat it's the most fun for me. I'll get somebody to play whatever I hum for the bassline. So I'm creating a whole track with my voice.”
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“I can't help but to care - that's just who I am. And it's not about pleasing everybody, because I know that's impossible, but it's just that I have so much respect for my job. I've worked so hard, worked my whole childhood at it. So I just cherish it. Whenever I decide to do something, I try to do it all the way. That's a part of my personality. I don't know how to do things in between. Either I love somebody and I stick with them, or I have nothing to say to them and I don't deal with them. I'm all or nothing.'
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I love my gay fans and I thank them for Destiny's Child and Kelly, Michelle and Solange from day one! I grew up going to church, but I was raised by my uncle who passed away from AIDS a couple of years ago. He was my mother's best friend. He brought me to school every day. He helped me buy my prom dress. He made my clothes with my mother. He was like my nanny. He was my favorite person in the world. And you know, I never really mixed Christianity with how I felt about him. I am about faith and spirituality more so than religion. Doing right by others and not judging. [If I had a gay son I would tell him] that I love him for the person he is with no expectations back. That I support whatever he does. That who we are is from the inside out
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at that gif. 
