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I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.