I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home