My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.