Keyshia Cole

“Once I get upset, there's kind of no turning back and until I feel like it.”

“You never know people's intentions or their motives. So when you find somebody that you really know truly loves you, and you truly love, I think it's really worth going through the battle of learning each other and what to do and not to do, and trying to love that person unconditionally, regardless of anything. It's really worth it. It is.”

“With 'Love,' after I wrote that song, I couldn't listen to it, I still can't listen to 'Love,' I just can't. Like I don't even listen to my own albums, which is bad because I really need to do that because I perform them all the time.”

“She's my mother, but at the same time, if you struggle all your life and your mother has never been there for you - to make sure you're taken care of - it's not cool.”

“When I signed to Interscope everything was already, like, whatever I wanted to do. Nobody really told me what direction to go in, nobody said to be 'this' kind of person, I never was a packaged album, so I felt like from the beginning, this is all my ideas, it's all who I am. I'm true to who I am so I want to control it. Why not?”

“I always wanted to make a movie about my life.”

“Dijon mustard is New York-style. It's the one thing I hate when I come out here.”

“It really never stop when it comes to music. It's an ongoing process.”

“On the family side and friend side, I'm very giving. I'm every woman.”

“I'm a strong believer that if you keep your faith right, you'll make sure you get what you want out of life because it's possible. I mean, anything is possible especially with God by your side.”

“Processes of loss - when you have children you just keep going.”

“When you make a commitment to marriage, you have to be serious about it. You can love the person you are with, but you have to be sure that you're ready to make that commitment.”

“I was so fixated on being a wife and being there for someone else that I kind of neglected who I was as an artist.”

“11:11 represents being aligned spiritually with your destiny.”

“When I came straight from Oakland, it was still in me. The disrespect, things that would happen, how we handle it from the 'hood. It was like, we just fight. It took a long time to learn to not put my hands on people; you know what I'm saying?”

“Regardless if my kids don't have both parents I'm trying to create that safe space of co-parenting. That's really what it's all about.”

“Well, actually, I was gonna be in a group with these two girls. We were in Los Angeles and we were working with Damon Elliot, who is Dionne Warwick's son, and he was like, 'Keysh, if you wanna sign with the girl group, you can; but I'll sign you solo.'”

“I want people to understand that it doesn't matter the cards you are dealt in life. What matters is what you do with your cards when you get them. That's what counts.”

“I just pray and I'm so thankful to have my kids because they are my light. Just being near them and being able to take them to school, pick them up, be a regular parent, that is a lot of my healing, being able to give my children something that I didn't really experience.”

“When I had my son, I slowed down drinking a lot. You know, I turned from a party girl and having fun to being focused. I made sure that I kept everything in perspective.”