Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that are on my album will be loved by the pop listeners and the R&B songs will be loved by the R&B people. I think that each song has a broad enough sound that I won't be pigeon holed. At the same time I think it is appealing to many different audiences.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.