So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

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.