Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way.