I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform the way I wanted to perform.

One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.

I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

The job is not the work.

Lovely place, shame about the people!