God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

I want to find things that challenge me.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.