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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't really consider myself a teacher. I think - like, I have opinions like everyone else, and I just share my opinions. "

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

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

" I do believe in prophecy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real. "

" I love my brownness. "

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

" When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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