My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

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.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.