The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

I was told there would be no math

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.