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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "

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

" Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine. "

" Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!' "

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" 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. "