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I Dream About Speaking In Big Forums About Issues That Need To Be Spoken About. I Dream About Helping Others Who I Know And Love, Helping Them Realize Their Dreams. I Dream About Being Able To Express Myself Through Acting And Writing, Definitely. I Dream About Bringing More Realism Into The World. Sometimes I Just Feel Like Certain Things Are So Glossed Over And Covered Up And Swept Under The Rug And I Just Want To Bring Them Out.

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I Dream About Speaking In Big Forums About Issues That Need To Be Spoken About. I Dream About Helping Others Who I Know And Love, Helping Them Realize Their Dreams. I Dream About Being Able To Express Myself Through Acting And Writing, Definitely. I Dream About Bringing More Realism Into The World. Sometimes I Just Feel Like Certain Things Are So Glossed Over And Covered Up And Swept Under The Rug And I Just Want To Bring Them Out.

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I Really Like To Live My Life In A Low-key Fashion.

I Don't Have A Ton Of Friends, But The Friends I Have Are Great Ones. I Don't Have Huge Family, But The Family I Have Is A Great One.

If I Want To Be Alone, Some Place I Can Write, I Can Read, I Can Pray, I Can Cry, I Can Do Whatever I Want - I Go To The Bathroom.

For Me, Doing A Show, The Excitement Of Singing Live, And The Possibility That You're Not Gonna Be Perfect - That's The Thrill Of It.

My Mother Was Raised Very, Very Strict Catholic In The Midwest. There Was So Much Fear And Intimidation [in The Faith]. So, Growing Up, I Was Always Looking For My Connection. I've Found Myself Praying Before Meals, Before Bed; There's Always Been This Gratitude For Things That Are Bigger Than Me.

Only Joy Comes From Song.

In Fact, I Think That's My Favorite Word And The Most Important Word When It Comes To Relationships: Equality.

I Have My Mother Who Is An Irish-italian, And My Father Who Is African, So I Have The Taste Buds Of An Italian And The Spice Of An African.

I Am Able To Hang With The Hardest, The Baddest, The Worst, And I'm Able To Hang With The Most Proper And Be At Ease. I'm Able To Hang With Any Skin Colour, Any Belief. I Just Fit In Everywhere.

My Music Comes From Many, Many, Many Places. My Emotions, My Feelings, My Thoughts, And Conversations I Have With People I Know Who Influence Me.

There Was No Other Path For Me. I Knew This Was My Path. I Had To Follow It.

I Loved Grand Pianos And Small Pianos, Too.

I've Always Valued The Input Of The People I Love. So In The Past, Whenever I'd Make A Decision - What To Wear To An Event, Whether To Pursue A Job Opportunity - I'd Consult Those Closest To Me, Like My Mother, Husband, Or Manager.

There Are So Many Things Where I Realize, Like, Simple Circumstance, Like The Simple Choice That I Made One Night To Not Do That And To Do This, One Night Could Have Changed Everything.

I've Seen So Many Lives Turn Around From The Impossible. I Have Come To Embrace The Idea That Even The Simplest Act Of Understanding, Love And Attention Can Produce The Biggest Results.

I Think There Was Something About Being In A Tough Environment That Gave Me A Certain Drive.

Even When I'm Singing On Record There's A Lot Of Times When I'll Fight For A Bit Of Imperfection. I Might Not Have Quite Hit The Note To The Perfect Pitch, But There Was A Soul In There And Feeling That,to Me, Delivers The Emotion Of That Moment. For Me, Doing A Show, The Excitement Of Singing Live, And The Possibility That You're Not Going To Be Perfect - That's The Thrill Of It.

Our Mission Goes Beyond Commerce, It Goes Beyond Technology. Our Intent Is To Preserve Music's Importance In Our Lives, Music Is The Language Of Love, Of Laughter, Of Heartbreak, Of Mystery. It's The World's True, True, Without Question, Universal Language.

I Don't Know If We Tell Women Great News About Themselves Enough. You'd Be Surprised How Often A Young Woman Doesn't Hear Positive Things About Herself - Not In Her Home, Not At School. It's Hard To Create A Beautiful Image For Yourself When You've Never Seen It Or Heard It.

I Can Do What I Want To Do, Lucky Me. But When These People Are Coming At Me And Asking These Things, They Don't Really Care About Me. And I Have Felt Like There Were All These People Who Just Wanted To Use Me.

I Love Children And I Love Family And I Love That Interaction. Because I Had A Really Close Relationship With My Mother, I Understand That Deep Powerful Love, And It's So Beautiful. To Be A Mother To A Child Is The Most Brilliant Gift; It's Gorgeous.

I Want To Continue To Produce Film, Television, And Theater, And To Make The Most Amazing Music That I've Made In My Life.

Simplicity Makes Me Happy.

Moments Are So Fleeting; I Want To Hold On To The Good Ones. When I Am Truly Present, I Feel Alive, And I Want Everyone Around Me To Share That Feeling So We Can Make The Most Of That Moment Together.

Still When I'm A Mess I Still Put On A Vest With An 's' On My Chest Oh Yes, I'm A Superwoman

All Of Us Are Different. That's What Makes Us Interesting And Special. I Don't Want To Be Anything Like Another Person. I Want To Be Totally Myself And Go Against The Grain, Forge My Own Path. I've Learned That Being Different Is What Makes You Stand Out. It Makes Everything So Much More Intriguing.

Being Different

When I'm On Stage, My Interaction With The Audience Is Something That Really Makes Me Come Alive. It's A Feeling Like No Other. The Energy Of The Crowd Fuels Something New Inside. It Reminds Me To Live In The Moment.

Live In The Moment

Oh My God, The [hip-hop] Videos! The Imagery Is So Awful! I Just Can't Get With It At All. The Best Thing I Can Say About It Is That Sometimes You Have To See That Kind Of Stuff So As To Have A More Balanced View About Why It's So Bad.

A Lot Of Times I Watch Tv And I Watch Film And There's So Many Things I'd Love To Talk About That I Feel Don't Get The Opportunity To Be Shown. Sometimes Things Become Very Stereotypical And One-sided, And I Feel Like It's Such A Colorful World.

The Element Of Fire To Me Is Very Powerful Because Of What It Symbolizes, How It Symbolizes A Strength. It Symbolizes Something That's Unstoppable. You Can't Get Through It, You Know.

I'm Definitely A Nerd. I'm A Cool-ass Nerd, But I Am Definitely A Nerd.

But When I First Fell In Love With The Piano, I Knew It Was Me. I Was Dying To Play.

Writing In My Journal Keeps Me Focused On My Spirit And What I Need Or Feel.

I'm Having An Unbelievable Time On The Road. I Am Taking The Time To Explore Each New City In A Way I Never Have Before.

What Acting Does Bring That Music Doesn't Bring For Me Is The Opportunity Is The Opportunity To Be Completely Different In Every Way From Whom You Normally Are, The Person That You Are When You Wake Up In The Morning Is Who You Are In Your Life. But To Take That And Have The Opportunity To Be The Complete Opposite Of That, Is The Excitement Of It.

When I Did Get Signed And I Was Going Around Letting People Know What I Was About, That's Exactly How I Did It: Me On The Piano, Playing A Couple Of Songs I'd Written And Talking To The People In Between. That's How I Got My Performance Chops Up.

Good Food Is An Amazing Blessing. Whenever You Can Sit Down At A Table, Eat Food That Is Extremely Delicious, And Are Surrounded By People You Love...it's: Wow, Life Is Good.

Things Can Be Really Empty In This World, And I Don't Just Mean The Music World. It Can Become A Very Meaningless Place If You Don't Really Understand: Who Am I? Why Am I Here? What Am I Doing? To Feel Fulfillment And Have A Deeper Level Of Understanding, Personally, That Is The Most Important Thing.

I Really Appreciate Frank Ocean's Lyrical Style, I Appreciate The Way That He Can Kind Of Draw You Into This Personal Space, But It's Still Lyrical. It's Almost Poetic, In A Way, But It's Very Personal At The Same Time.

Many Things Inspire Me. First And Foremost, My Family, My Husband, And Our Son. I Find That The Love We Share Fills Me Up And Makes Me See And Appreciate Life In A Different Way.

People Don't Expect Me To Be As Funny As I Am.

I Love Bono. I Really Respect What He Has Done For Africa And How He Has Used His Fame To Do Good In The World. I Hope I Can Do Half As Much In My Life.

Once People See This 'unplugged,' I Just Want Them To Feel The Spontaneity, To Feel Passionate... I Want You To See Another Side Of Me, That's Free, And Feel Where My Head Is, Where Whatever Happens, Happens. I Want You To Feel Inspired.

You Have To Identify What You Care About And Why You Care About It. It Has To Be Personal. It Has To Be Something That Fires You Up Or Means Something To You, Or It's Not Going To Drive You.

I'm Very Happy With My Body.

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Music Is Funny. I Shouldn't Even Ever Talk About Music, Because You Can Have All The Ideas In Your Head, And It Never Goes Exactly The Way That You Think It's Gonna Go.

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Quiet Moments Recharge Me.

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At The End Of The Day, So Many Things That We Hold So Much Value With, It Just Doesn't Even Mean Anything. I Really Try To Stay Focused On Being Really Positive.

The End Of The Day

I Thought I Had To Be Perfect. I Would Often Make Choices I Thought Would Make Everyone Else Happy. I Lived At A Pace That Was "good For My Career," Whether It Was Good For Me Or Not. I Have Learned How Important It Is To Check In With Myself And Listen, Really Listen.

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Every Moment Is Beautiful; Delicious Even! Every Moment I'm Learning And Living In A Way I Never Have Before. Being Present In A Way I Never Have Before. Existing In Moments I Never Have Before.

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Everything You Want To Be, You Already Are. You're Simply On The Path To Discovering It.

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I Grew Up In A Pretty Tough Neighborhood.

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Everything's Gonna Be Alright.

You're At Your Most Purest, Most Innocent, Pure State When You're Doing Something You've Never Done Before. You're Scared A Little, You're A Little Vulnerable, You're Kind Of Trying, And Then You're Also Better, Because You're Trying Harder Than You Maybe Would Try.

Fear Is Not A Part Of My Vocabulary, Actually.

Sometimes I Feel Good, At Times I Feel Used. Loving You Darling, Makes Me So Confused.

No One Will Take Care Of You If You Don't Take Care Of Yourself.

Take Care Of Yourself

I Know People Who've Gone To Jail. It Don't Mean You Stop Loving Them! They Deservin' Love Just As Much In There, And Maybe They Needin' It More.

When I Was A Kid I'd Practise Chopin On Piano - And I Love Chopin! He's My Dawg! Then I'd Go Out On The Stoop And Blast The Radio. I'm From New York, The Concrete Jungle. Hip-hop Influenced Me From Day One.

If I Know Everything Around The Situation, All The Facts, I Feel Like I Can Handle Just About Anything.

You've Got To Love What's Yours.

I'm The Cofounder Of Keep A Child Alive. We Provide Medicine For Families Affected By Hiv And Aids In Places Like Africa And India.

There Are Certain Things We Come Into This World Having To Defeat. And For Me, And I Would Not Be Surprised If A Lot Of Women Feel This Same Way, It's This Thing Of Not Being 100 Percent Comfortable With Myself.

How You Look Is Your Statement, Because It's A Claiming Of Yourself.

I'm A Very Positive Person, But This Whole Concept Of Having To Always Be Nice, Always Smiling, Always Happy, That's Not Real. It Was Like I Was Wearing A Mask. I Was Becoming This Perfectly Chiselled Sculpture, And That Was Bad. That Took A Long Time To Understand.

Even If Your Family Isn't Quite There For You, Find The People That Support You And Hang On To Those People And Try To Let Go Of Those That Try To Take You Down.

When I Was Younger, Studying Classical Music, I Really Had To Put In The Time. Three Hours A Day Is Not Even Nice - You Have To Put In Six.

If I Can Remain Excited About The Music That I'm Giving You, Then You're Damn Sure Going To Be Excited About It.

A Lot Of People, They've Been Saying To Me, Oh Don't Get Married. It Ruins Everything. And I'm Like, Damn.

You Just Can't Take A Day For Granted. We Had To Work Really Hard For Anything, And So That's Been Instilled In Me. And I Don't Look At Myself As Better Than Anybody Else, Because In An Instant Everything Can Change.

I Feel Like The Majority Of The Fear That I Had Or That We Have We Hold From Other People. They're Like People That We Trust; They're Their Fears. All Of A Sudden We Think That They're Our Fears.

What Breaks My Heart Is Suffering Of Any Kind.

I Grew Up In The Middle Of Everything. I Walked The Streets Alone, I Rode The Trains Alone, I Came Home At Three In The Morning Alone; That Was What I Did.

If You Treat Me Fairly, I'll Give You All My Goods.

We Listen So Much To Everybody - More Than Ever, Because We Have A Kabillion Voices Whose Opinion We Can Access - And We Care So Much If Everybody Agrees With Us. To Bust Through All Of The Noise Is Very Challenging.

I Feel The Presence Of A Higher Power. I Believe That What You Give Is What You Get. It's Universal Law. I Believe In The Power Of Prayer And Of Words. I've Learned That When You Predict That Negative Things Will Happen, They Do.

If I Didn't Love It, I Would Not Record It.

I've Learned That One Of My Greatest Secrets Is Scheduling Downtime Into A Busy Schedule. This Gives Me The Time To Have Quality Moments With My Husband And Son, Who Both Recharge My Spirit In Ways I Never Imagined.

My Son Makes Me Super Giddy, Especially When He Laughs. His Laugh Makes Me Laugh Like A Maniac!

I Feel Like B Sides Are Always Better, No Matter Whose Record It Is.

My Mother Is An Actress, And She Used To Drag Me From Theater To Theater And Reading To Reading.

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I Have Big Everything On The Bottom But I Love My Legs. You've Got To Love What's Yours.

I Have Solid Decent People Around Me, And I Believe That Is All It Is, Because You Will Get Destroyed If You Have People Bringing You Down.

There's Something So Powerful About Being My Own Gorgeous, Beautiful, Individual, Unique Self.

Musicians Used To Be Way More Instrumental Just In Providing A Soundtrack To What's Going On In The World. And It's Also Important To State What We Think. There's Like This Fear For Their Career, If They Have Anything Intelligent To Say About Politics. And That's Really Messed Up.

Gangsta Rap Was A Ploy To Convince Black People To Kill Each Other. Gangsta Rap Didnt Exist.

No Matter How Far You Are. No Matter How Long It Takes Him. Through Distance And Time I'll Be Waiting.

Not Because I'm Trying To Be Fabulous, But I Love Those Big Crazy Jackie O Shades.

To Be Able To Help A 13-year-old Kid From The Bronx Follow Her Dreams Just By Letting Her Know She's Not Forgotten In This Crazy World - That's Why I Got Involved With Frum Tha Ground Up.

Meditation Has Been A Big Change For Me In A Super-positive Way. I See The Result And Strength And Clarity - Even My Creativity Is Different And More Connected. It Might Be 10 Minutes A Day; It Might Be 20 Minutes A Day. But Every Day In This Crazy World, It's A Sense Of Peace And Purpose.

My Parents Weren't Married. It Wasn't Like My Dad Up And Left. I Maintained A Steady Relationship With My Grandparents. My Dad's Mother Is My Nana, And I'm Closer To Her Than Almost Anybody In This World.

I Find That The Love We Share Fills Me Up And Makes Me See And Appreciate Life In A Different Way.

The Last Thing I Want Is To Walk Into My House After A Long Day And See All The Grammys And Awards. It Would Make Me Feel Weird.

I Personally Feel That Acting Is Not Totally Different From Singing And Being A Musician.

Hand Me The World On A Silver Platter, And What Good Would It Be?

Some Of The Greatest Artists Did Their Best Work When They Got Political.

Love Will Come Find You, Just To Remind You Of Who You Are.

I've Learned That While I'd Be A Fool Not To Stay Open To The Advice And Experiences Of The Smart, Amazing People In My Life, I Also Need To Listen To What I Have To Say.

Most Times, Your Blessings Are Also Your Curses. And For Me, I Have This Ability To Express Myself So Clearly With Pen And Paper, But When It Comes To Expressing Myself Verbally, I Put Up A Big Wall.

I Don't Dream - Only If I'm Uncomfortable Or I'm Going Through Something.

I've Stepped More Into My Business And Really... Taken Control For How I Want That To Be.

I Grew Up In The Theater, My Mother Is An Actress, I Was Always Around The World Of Acting And Theater.

I'd Rather Not Have Anything Than Be A Liar.

Not Having All The Information Can Make Me Feel Vulnerable.

As A Lyricist, You Love To Hear Other Great Lyrics Or Other Great Concepts.

I'm Inspired By Artists And Musicians. There Are So Many Wonderful And Talented People In The World. I Love Discovering New Music, New Writers, Or New Art.

Living Will Always Be A Struggle Looking For Someone To Love You.

When I'm On Stage, My Interaction With The Audience Is Something That Really Makes Me Come Alive. It's A Feeling Like No Other. The Energy Of The Crowd Fuels Something New Inside.

My Life Is Rich Because I Have Those Kinds Of People In My Life.

When You're Talented, You're Talented.

I've Been Able To Find A Lot Of What I've Not Had Before: Freedom, Bravery, Fearlessness. It's Empowering To Find Those Things.

I Don't Worry Cause, Everything's Gonna Be Alright.

Create The World You Want, And Fill It With The Opportunities That Matter To You.

You Can Be Very Fulfilled As A Mother, But That Can't Be The Only Way You Are Fulfilled. What About Being A Woman? What About Being Yourself? Your Awareness Of What's Happening In The World? It Lives Altogether In A Way That Makes A Whole. I Guess I'd Say I'm The Wholest I've Ever Been.

I Think It's The Ego In Us That Screws Us Up.

Moments Are So Fleeting; I Want To Hold On To The Good Ones.

I Feel Alive In Quiet Moments With My Son, Riding Our Bikes Or Watching Him Line His Trains Up In A Particular Order, Witnessing How His Mind Works, Hearing Him Learn A New Word. I'm Alive In These Special Moments Because I Never Knew A Love Like This.

I've Always Been Strong-minded, But I Wonder.

I Think Conveying The Emotion Of The Collective "we" Is Pretty Incredible. Especially In Tumultuous Times Like We Are In Now.

Falling Down Ain't Falling Down, If You Don't Cry When You Hit The Floor, It's Called The Past Cause I'm Getting Past, And I Ain't Nothing Like I Was Before, You Ought To See Me Now

Be Driven, Be Focused, But Enjoy Every Moment, Because It Only Happens Once.

The Smaller You Strip Things Down, The More You Depend On The Songs And Yourself, As Opposed To Arrangements.

I Promised Myself That I'd Never Actually Admit To Listening To 'new Kids On The Block.'

I'd Rather Believe In My Own Choice And See It All Go Wrong Than Do Something I'm Not Fully Convinced Of And Later Feel Guilty About It.

If Your Family - Just Because They're Blood Doesn't Mean That They Necessarily Give You The Best Advice.

I Was Just Talking To Bono The Other Day, And He Was Like, "are You Doing Shows?" I've Just Been Off The Road For A Month-and-a-half, And He Was Like, "you Lucky Girl."

There's Too Much Darkness In The World. Everywhere You Turn, Someone Is Tryin' To Tear Someone Down In Some Way; Everywhere You Go, There's A Feeling Of Inadequacy, Or A Feeling That You're Not Good Enough. I Want To Bring A Certain Light To The World.

Not Good Enough

I Love The Written Word So Much, I Know It's Gonna Flow Naturally.

I Like To Do Outdoorsy Things: Hikes, Trails, Running, Swimming. I Love The Sun. I'm All About The Warmth.

My Mom Always Said, "don't Date A Guy Who Thinks He's Prettier Than You."

I Think I Grew Up Really Fast; I Grew Up In This Really Fast-paced Business, And I Never Understood What It Meant To Take A Break Or Take Time Off Or Recover, And I Paid For It.

I Think Following My Instinct Has Proven To Lead Me In The Right Direction, And It's Hard To Hear Sometimes, Because It's A Noisy World And There's A Lot Of People Talking To You.

I've Stepped More Into My Womanhood, I'm A Mother Now, I'm Having A Beautiful Relationship As A Wife And As A Friend.

A Good Friend Of Mine Told Me You Should Take A Break And You Should Go See The World. Go Somewhere. That Is When I Chose To Go To Egypt, And So I Took This Beautiful Trip To Egypt. It Was The First Time Ever In My Whole Life I Took Three Weeks Off, And I Sailed Down The Nile And I Saw The Tombs And The Temples, And I Experienced A Place That Was So Magical And So Incredibly Powerful And Intelligent And Inspiring.

I Feel More Like I'm A Person Who Has So Much To Offer In Different Capacities That It Would Be A Danger For Me Not To Give Myself A Chance To Spread My Wings In All Different Directions.

Fear Is Not A Part Of My Vocabulary, Actually, And I Think That It's Really Made Me A Much Smarter, Braver For Sure, Person.

I Pray Before Everything. When I Wake Up, Before I Eat, Before I Perform, Before I Go To Sleep, In The Moments I Need Guidance.

Stevie Wonder's Records Introduced Me To '70s Soul When I Was 12 Or 13.

I've Met Many Young Women Who Are Hiv Positive And Courageously Fighting The Disease. Their Determination To Live A Full Life And See Their Children Live In A Better World Is Deeply Inspiring To Me.

I Love Being A Mom. And I Think What I Love The Most Is The Way It Makes Me Think About What's Important And What's Not Important. What To Fight For And What To Just Be Cool With. What It Is That I'm Teaching Through Example And What It Is That I Was Taught That I Don't Want To Teach.

I'm Very Blessed To Have A Phenomenal Husband, Son, And Beautiful Family And Friends Around Me.

It's Important For Everyone - Working Moms Especially - To Find Moments To Ground Themselves And Connect With Their Own Breath.

You Don't Know What Will Happen From One Minute To The Next.

He Broke My Heart, And Now It's Raining, Just To Rub It In.

There Is This Fallacy About How Women Are Catty, That We're All In Competition With Each Other. I'd Say: As Opposed To Getting Swept Up In Jealousy, Use That Pang To Give You An Indication Of What You Are Looking For.

Listening To Great Music And Art Inspires Me And Recharges Me.

The Most Important Thing To Remember Is That You Can Wear All The Greatest Clothes And All The Greatest Shoes, But You’ve Got To Have A Good Spirit On The Inside. That’s What’s Really Going To Make You Look Like You’re Ready To Rock The World.

Inspirational Life

I Realize That I Want Something More. Success Is Great, But Then You Also Wake Up In Your Hotel Room At Four In The Morning And You're Like, Wouldn't It Be Nice To Have Someone Here With Me.

Early On In My Career, I Was More Closed Off In Every Way. I Thought I Was Protecting Myself; Instead, I Was Robbing Myself Of All I Could Learn And Experience.

You Are What You Listen To

Business Can Change You, And Chew You Up, And Spit You Out, And Be Rid Of You, And On To The Next Thing. That's Why It's So Important To Know Who You Are And Stand Up For Something.

I Think We Deserve People Who Really, Really Love Us.

I’ve Found That The Best Life Has To Offer Is Right In Front Of Me, With My Husband And Child

The Artists Who Have Inspired Me The Most In My Life Are The Ones Who Have Really Had Something To Say And Stand Up For. That, To Me, Is Part Of Being An Artist-having The Voice To Express Things That Need To Be Verbalized And Brought To Light. Unfortunately, I Don't Think That's A Priority For People, Because The Few Artists Who Do Have The Nerve To Take A Stand For What They Believe Get Shut Down In A Way.

I Was Tired And I Had Overworked Myself And Burnt Myself Out. So I Went To Egypt By Myself. When I Saw What Was Built There, It Made Me Understand How Powerful We Are, That We Can Create Anything. And I Felt Like I Needed To Create Things That Were Timeless Too.

I Wouldn't Mind Being In One Place For Two Months Or So. It Really Doesn't Sound So Bad!

From The Beginning, I've Had To Juggle And Weigh The Silly Things People Say - And I've Learnt That They're Meaningless, And They're Mostly Inaccurate. So I Don't Worry About It, Because There's Nothin' For Me To Deal With.

I Grew Up Around The Theatre. My Mother Is An Actress. I Would Fall Asleep On Tons Of Theatre Chairs. It's In My Blood; It's In My Spirit And My Fabric Of Who I Am.

The Energy Of The Crowd Fuels Something New Inside. It Reminds Me To Live In The Moment.

Live In The Moment

Through The Shake Of An Earthquake I Will Never Fall. That’s How Strong My Love Is.

When I Really Need It, Talking Is The Best Way To Deal With Emotional Pain.

I Find Myself To Be Truly Primal And Passionate. Everything I Do Comes From A Primal Place.

I'm Not Ashamed Of What I Am And That I Have Curves And That I'm Thick. I Like My Body.

I See What Happens When One Gets Very Attached To Material Things. That's Just Not What My Life Is.

A Minor Is One Of My All-time Favorite Keys To Play In. It's A Very Moody Key, And Also 'a' Is The First Letter Of My Name. It Just Represents The Songs Through My Eyes.

Yes I Was Burned But I Called It A Lesson Learned. Mistake Overturned So I Call It A Lesson Learned. My Soul Has Returned So I Call It A Lesson Learned...another Lesson Learned

I Think Being Really Connected To A Higher Power, Of Having A Spirituality To Me, Has Been Really Good For Me And I Pray All The Time.

How Terrible Would It Have Been If I Had Come Out With Some Watered-down Version Of Who I Am? People Fell In Love With The Real Me, And I Still Feel Blessed That That Was How The Journey Began.

Risk The Fall To Know How It Feels To Fly.

I'm Committed To Evolving And Growing And Sitting At The Head Of My Own Table With No Fears Or Limitations. But I've Also Learned To Be More Open Now And More Spontaneous In Life.

Mozart Would Play A Counterpart With His Left Hand While Using His Right To Mock It. It Was Blue, Dark, Shadowy - And It Made Me Feel Something. That's When I Realized Music Was Inside Me.

I'm So Grateful That I Can Play And That I Can Execute What I Hear In My Head, Because That's The Tricky Part.

It's Not Until I Hear Songs That I've Done, That I Realize How Much Of An Inspiration Music From The '60s And '70s Has Been.

We Believe Frederick Nietzsche Couldn't Have Been More Right When He Said 'without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake.

The Most Important Thing Is To Be Proud Of The Work That You Put Into Something, And Put The Ego Aside.

It's The Unknown That Makes Me Feel The Most Vulnerable.

Why Give Up Before We Try?

I Think What Happens In The World, And I Think It's Part Human Nature And Part Programming, Is We Become An Emulation Of What We See. We Become Clones Of Each Other.

I'm Discovering My Sexual Side, And Exploring Relationships. You Know, Sensual Stuff. And I'm Discovering A Lot Of Sides Of Myself, Stuff I've Buried. So The Music Is Also Therapeutic, To Come To Terms With Things. And I Feel Now Like My Head Is In The Right Space.

The Desire To Play Has Always Been In Me. I Remember My First Experience At About Four Or Five Of Really Dying To Sing And Dying To Play That Came From No One Telling Me To Do So.

All Women Are Naturally, Bad Ass!

It's A Beautiful Blessing That I Get To Help Raise A Man. And I Want To Show Him As Much As Possible.

What Breaks My Heart Is Suffering Of Any Kind. Too Often, Our World Is Divisive And Cruel Where It Needs To Be Uniting And Loving.

Love Me Like You'll Never See Me Again.

I Look Forward To My First Visit To Israel. Music Is A Universal Language That Is Meant To Unify Audiences In Peace And Love, And That Is The Spirit Of Our Show.

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