Balancing is hard. I've lost roles that I really wanted because I had set up a tour. I cancelled tours to do roles before. But I have to find the time to make that up to my audience. I made a commitment to them.
I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.
I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.
Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.
I need my man to be my homie.
All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.
I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way.
In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.