It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

You might be a redneck if you give your dad a gallon of Pepto-Bismol for his birthday.

Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

I am lucky. I am fortunate. I found the love of my life.