Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

While you are serving someone else, God is working out your future

Well, the first month of 2014 is soon to complete welcome to tomorrow dream warrior.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.