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I choose to be authentic in everything I do

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Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.
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You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.
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Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.
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The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.
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I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.
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Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.
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Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along.
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I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
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I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.
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The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.
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I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.
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I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.
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What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.
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It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.
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What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.
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When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.
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I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.
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I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.
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Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.
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In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.
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