Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so I think it was kind of inevitable to be artistic and to have a force. We're leaders; we're a family of leaders, so I think it's just part of my genes.

Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.