I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.