Art is the absence of fear.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.