Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

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.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'