You've got to love what's yours.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

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.

Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.