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" I don't want the world to get any worse. I want to make it better. "

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" I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like. "

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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. "

" Our food choices show up on our body. "

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

" 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. "

" Your soul is between you and God. "

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

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

" 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. "

" To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up. "

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

" I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business. "

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

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

" It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing. "