When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.

Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.