Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.