I love putting the music together. It's like art

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.

I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.

It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.