15 Quotes by Tyka Nelson

I love to perform, to give glory to God with my own brand of funky gospel music. I think it's my mission to show people that God, that Jesus, can be cool.

I'm not really any religion. I still study with Jehovah's Witnesses, so I say I'm Apostolic Pentecostal Jehovah's Witness Seventh-Day Adventist Jew.

Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was writing lyrics while I was supposed to be working. I'd look up, and there's my supervisor.

I'm definitely not afraid of death. It's like I'm looking forward to it, really. I'm probably a little more afraid of living.

God is the new drug.

I was a single mother, and my boys were babies. I sold my body for food, money, and Pampers.

I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

Being Prince's sister might get me in the door, but it is my own talent that keeps me on the stage.