"When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch."
"I definitely learned that when I want something done, I'm very tunnel-visioned out. I don't come out of the house. I beat myself up. I don't eat. I don't sleep until it's done, especially if I have a deadline in mind."
"I'm very patient with life."
"Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that."
"If I step out in public, I wear sweatpants and a cap."
"It's a dangerous world out there when it comes to relationships. And I believe we attract what we are. So I want to work on being my best self so I can attract the same."
"If you have any kind of sex appeal, people are quick to accuse, abuse, lie, assume, and make up rumors. And that's not just in entertainment - that's in life. Period."
"I was very protected by my family. But at the same time, I was free to explore womanhood. I was taught that it's okay to be sexy and smart and beautiful."
"Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much."
"Music makes me love life, and without it, I don't know if I'd be happy."
"I love rice and pasta."
"My family thinks I'm crazy and weird."
"I've really fired a lot of managers that had that mindset or publicists that had that mindset of, 'Oh, you need to go on a date with this person because it's going to help album sales.' No thank you. That's not my flow."
"I gravitate toward people with a big, sane, sound mind and big heart with a soft spot for elders, children, and animals."
"Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new."
"My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists."
"I don't pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them."
"Understand that you are going to have to address several things navigating through the world as it pertains to men who have been conditioned to think that they are superior, which I don't believe, in the natural world, that is the case."
"There's a balance of feminine and masculine energy. Unfortunately, it's an imbalanced world because of the people that are in charge, and that's egotistical men."
"I grew up with brothers in real life."
"I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS."
"I think actors, athletes, and anyone who's a public speaker is very amazing or fascinating to me."
"I'm very reserved when I get off stage."
"I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris."
"I function properly, feel better, do better, look better, and treat others better when there's less clutter."