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

We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.