I mean, I’m not unhappy, but there’s still so much I want to do.

Well. I’m probably not loving myself like I should, but I’m really trying.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn’t go over a cliff.

I’d been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn’t see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn’t know anyone.

You know, it’s just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

I’d like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street… those were like real accomplishments to me.

I’ve always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

Basically what we did — I wrote poetry, he took it home and came back the next day with music to it, … It was that simple. It took us three weeks’ time to do...

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

We are so similar in many ways, in that we are both so eclectic, … And we love so many genres of music and we love to just mix stuff up.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

They are in it to make money, period, … And they are looking at their earnings at the end of a fiscal year. You, on the other hand, are the total opposite of that. You...

One of the album’s songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don’t want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that’s been playing in my head when it...

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

I like to work spontaneously.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.