A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

Honey isn't really that good for you.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.

When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

Riccardo Tisci has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.

I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.