I was captain of the pom-pom team, which was still dance, but we were athletes. We trained on the track and did workouts every single day after school.
To take a whole load for a whole album on yourself is very challenging and kind of hard to execute when you don't have a reputation as a producer. If you do it for fun, you get a good outcome.
Understand that you are going to have to address several things navigating through the world as it pertains to men who have been conditioned to think that they are superior, which I don't believe, in the natural world, that is the case.
My family thinks I'm crazy and weird.
I've had two boyfriends in the industry. Like, relationships. But I never say names because I respect my relationships and what we've gone through.
I gravitate toward people with a big, sane, sound mind and big heart with a soft spot for elders, children, and animals.
Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.
I didn't know what I was getting into when I went vegan, but so many things changed. I shed 30 pounds. I felt better. I was doing better mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was healing myself from the inside out.
We had a bond creatively that came out of 'Lady Marmalade.' It was our link. And people don't know this, but P!nk and I actually met when we were both 16 years old in Philadelphia. I was recording my first album, and we were working with the same producers, so I originally knew her as Alecia.
I have great friends and always go back home to remember where and who the essence of Mya and where I actually come from and to never forget that.
When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.
I don't pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them.
I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.
I've always been the girl with a go-getter attitude.
There was a time in my life when I wasn't popular and accepted by kids in school. I was made fun of with braces and kinky hair and being from a multicultural family, et cetera.
The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep, is real simple, and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy.
I definitely learned that when I want something done, I'm very tunnel-visioned out. I don't come out of the house. I beat myself up. I don't eat. I don't sleep until it's done, especially if I have a deadline in mind.
I'm very patient with life.
Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that.
It's a dangerous world out there when it comes to relationships. And I believe we attract what we are. So I want to work on being my best self so I can attract the same.
