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• ‟ I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way.

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• ‟ You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.

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• ‟ When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

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• ‟ It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it.

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• ‟ Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

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• ‟ For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

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• ‟ For the first ten years of my career, I felt suffocated. People constantly stood over me while I tried to create. And in 2009, I hit rock bottom. I couldn't find myself because I was looking to be defined by the music industry or by being number one on the Billboard charts.

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• ‟ I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever.

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• ‟ I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

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• ‟ The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

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• ‟ I feel like I'm always gonna sing and write songs because it's me.

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• ‟ One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs.

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