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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for. "

" What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal. "

" When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home. "

" I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears. "

" Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation. "

" It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly. "

" Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything. "

" The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words. "