When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.