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" Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your soul is between you and God. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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" In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals? "

" 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. "

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

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

" I made a conscious decision when I was recording 'Acoustic Soul' to - and this is one of my mantras - follow the music and let the chips fall where they may. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever. "

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