I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.