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"When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one."
"You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try."
"Love me like you'll never see me again."
"Your life can become the background for the art you create."
"Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are."
"Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world."
"We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do."
"It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable."
"I'd rather not have anything than be a liar."
"Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love...it's: Wow, life is good."
"I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now."
"The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way."
"Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person."
"I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions."
"Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now"
"Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless."
"Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing."
"You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you."
"It's karma, baby. And it goes around."
"But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play."