I'm grateful and enjoying the ride.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.

What I wear onstage is so stylized and bold.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.

As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.

I'm very particular but very thrifty at the same time.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

I am happy that I can challenge myself in various fields.

I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

I was actually discovered by Kai Millard and Stevie Wonder.

I love different eclectic bands. I love Phoenix and Kimber.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.

I like things that are over the top and subtle at the same time.

If it looks like your grandma's bedsheets, I'll put it on my body.

I've always wanted to be a woman who isn't afraid to tell her story.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.

For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder's wife, and no, I am not his child.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.

The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.

I use this GPB glycogen protein balancing conditioner by Aubrey Organics that I love.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.

My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.

I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.

As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.

I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.

I'm grateful for the fans who've been there from the beginning and am excited about how we've grown and how we've evolved now.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

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