They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Make your own music. It can be done.

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.