I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

I've always been passionate about fashion.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

I am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

I have a huge issue with blackface.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.