Female energy is very comforting and beautiful.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

These days, it's more like me coming from playing a show and feeling the high from all the energies directed at me, to feeling a bit weird when I go home to the place where people know me from before all that.

We had some Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, but there’s a lot of hip-hop and other black music that I just never grew up on. My parents didn’t listen to anything other than black gospel."

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.