I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.

I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.

When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.