The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.