I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that are very, very deep. And unless we collectively address them and really put our effort to healing them, they'll perpetuate. The United States of America are still suffering from the echoes of slavery. I think we're still reeling from all the pain that is a result of it, and that's a reality.

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.