I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

Chaos isn't good for your health.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

There are rules but there's really no wrong way.

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.