Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.