Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.

I've noticed from my fans that we hide the things that we are facing.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

I don't worry about money because I no longer have the fear mentality that I won't be provided for.

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Work is the means of living, but it is not living.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.