In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

Real religion is no religion at all.