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

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

I believe God will make a way.

I ran very fast in the wrong direction.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.