I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.