“Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.”

“I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. It is as cut-and dried as that. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or not; in this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.”

“Nationalism is cured by traveling.”

“The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews”

“No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.”

“Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.”

“I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.”