André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high school, we both agreed to be in the same city, so André is in Dallas all the time, and we're always all together doing something.

I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.

I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

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

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.