I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.

I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.