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" The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it. "

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" 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. "

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Judgmental

Trying

Difference

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

" 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. "

India Arie

Hero

Eye

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

" I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back. "

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

India Arie

Back

Anything

" 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. "

" What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. "

" I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose. "

" 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. "

" If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster. "

" 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. "

India Arie

Decision

Fall

" I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody. "

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

" You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others. "

" 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. "

" Our food choices show up on our body. "

India Arie

Our

Show

" Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling. "

" 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. "

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

India Arie

Life

Mood

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For the first ten years of my career, I felt suffocated. People constantly stood over me while I tried to create. And in 2009, I hit rock bottom. I couldn't find myself because I was looking to be defined by the music industry or by being number one on the Billboard charts. "

India Arie

People

Looking

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Your soul is between you and God. "

" 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. "