Quotes from Michel'le

Therapy is really good, so I'm kind of sticking with therapy.

I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

In life, you can't regret anything because it's called opportunities that you pass. You're the only one that can take the opportunity but you disappoint yourself with the decision of doing or not doing.

I don't have any regrets. I call them disappointments.

I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up.

It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it' - no, I did. Of course I did.

I went away, I was gone for 2 1/2 months, and they said, 'oh, Dr. Dre is engaged.' I had already had it out with this girl before I left. He was sleeping with her so I was like, 'Come on!'

I am so excited about working with the girls at the Boys & Girls Club East Los Angeles. Being apart of a program that helps young people go after their dreams is something special and I feel it's an honor and privilege to participate.

I never got with Dre for money because he didn't have a driver's license, a car or insurance... or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He'd rather have me sing.

You know what my grandmother said, eventually: 'When a man beats you, he doesn't like you. He has women issues and it starts probably with their mothers.' And I said 'You're probably right.'

Right at the peak of my - I went on the Hammer tour and found out I was 6 weeks pregnant, and we had two more months to go. I had to come home and drop that baby and finish out some more shows and then I became a stay-at-home mommy.

I stayed because it was normal. After the first hit, you don't think they're going to do it again. And it does escalate, but I stayed because it became normal. I didn't call the police because I didn't want them to go to jail and it just was normal.

For many years I was unwilling to share my personal experiences.

If I'm on the phone, ordering something, people often tell me to have my mother come to the phone. They don't believe I'm a grown-up.

My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.