Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

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 gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.