The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.