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I like to work spontaneously.
If I love a song, I make it mine.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.
I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.
I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.
To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.
Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.
Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.
You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.
There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.
I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.
I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.
I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.
But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.
The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.
It sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dimeI had a manager once say to me, You know you're worth more money dead than alive.
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.