Musician

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.

I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.

I've teamed up with Pine Sol to celebrate the makers of home.

Usher and Shakira are so humble and easy to get along with.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

It's weird what a last name will do. I changed it to 'Milian,' and next thing you know, I was working and getting auditions and stuff, and it was crazy.

You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.

My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.

When you have something special, it's like everybody picks apart words. They'll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that's special and trash it.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.

I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie 'Be Cool.' I performed 'Cryin',' so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn't get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.

I felt like by doing 'Turned Up,' it was something for my fans. It would be a great outlet for me to come out musically and really step up my game.

With my first single, 'AM to PM,' I was just this cute 18-year-old. But 'cute' didn't get me older roles, and 'cute' wasn't selling records. I wanted people to see that I'd grown up, so I did 'Dip It Low.'

I'm more vocal about my ideas in person and music.

I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.

This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.