TLC always looked up to male bands. We saw guy groups could just go out and get the fans screaming by just standing there - fully clothed and with nothing but their music... We saw them as the competition more than the girl groups, with whom we wanted to stay unified.
We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up.
If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.
It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
The record business sucks!
You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.
I think timing is everything.
I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.
I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.
