Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that`s it.

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

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.