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

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

" There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't even listen to Bob Marley until I was 17. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together. "

" I feel like I'm always gonna sing and write songs because it's me. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music. "

" I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. "

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

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