What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.
I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.
I don't really consider myself a teacher. I think - like, I have opinions like everyone else, and I just share my opinions.
There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.
I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder.
At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads!
You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.
If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change.
Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!'
I feel like I'm always gonna sing and write songs because it's me.
In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.
Everybody has their own path. I got mine.
For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.
I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?
I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose.
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.
Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals?
Our food choices show up on our body.
It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.
Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!
Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.
It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly.
I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything.
