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.

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

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.

What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.