I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

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.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.