What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.