"I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other."
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"And Im happy that Im not super skinny."
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"My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world."
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"I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too."
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"I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time."
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"Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go."
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"I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional."
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"I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out."
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"I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before."
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"I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person."
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"No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting."
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"For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it."
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"Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back."
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"I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world."
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"Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist."
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"A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring."
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"I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl.""
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"When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up."
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"I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did."
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"Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me"
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