Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.