Singer

I believe God will make a way.

This life is a process of learning.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Let optimists rule the world.

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.