My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

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.

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 girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

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

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