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

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

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.