Meshell Ndegeocello

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'