I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.

I don't like rehearsal.

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

I think this would be a good time for a beer.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

To play without passion is inexcusable!