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.

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.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

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

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

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

What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.