The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.