All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.
I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.
The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.
I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.
When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
I bring the staple of my culture.
My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time
Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think I have one more year to do that, then she's going to get her own ideas - so I better move quickly!
