I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

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.