I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me