I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

I do believe that we're all God's children.

I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.