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" Everything in my music has always been emotionally and spiritually motivated... But after I started doing yoga, the place where I came from changed drastically. "

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" 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. "

" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "

" Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!' "

" I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back. "

" I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore. "

" 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 love my brownness. "

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" I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player. "

" It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it. "

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" If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different. "

" In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there. "

" 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. "

" In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late '70s pop stuff - Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music - I have all of that stuff in my heart. "

" In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention. "

" You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others. "

" I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy. "

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" So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive. "

" I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little. "

" I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak the truth. "

" Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it. "

" 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? "

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

" 'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way. "

" 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. "

" There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all. "

" When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. "

" I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original. "

" Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood. "

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" Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls. "

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