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.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

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.

When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

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.