I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over..

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames..

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 di….

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life..

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. Pe….

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - ….

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings..

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to..

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools..

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..

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..

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me..

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other..

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself..

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people..

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place..

Walking through this life really is walking through fire..

I like to work spontaneously..

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time..

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..