It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

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.

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.