From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.

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.

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.

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.