I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

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.

You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

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.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation.