Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.

I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.