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" At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads! "

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" Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life. "

" I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular? "

" If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change. "

" Your soul is between you and God. "

" What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. "

" I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever. "

" I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose. "

" Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain. "

" This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break. "

" I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody. "

" That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings. "

" It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music. "

" Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion. "

" 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. "

" I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people. "

" I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of men who like women with a brain. "

" I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. "

" I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself. "

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

" Our food choices show up on our body. "

" I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder. "

" Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state. "

" Everybody has their own path. I got mine. "