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I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

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I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.

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My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.

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I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.

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A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.

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I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

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I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

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Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

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I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.

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I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.

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I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.

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When you walk in the front of the White House, the pictures on the walls, they change out pretty frequently. They're all very cool and historical, with pictures from the current term and past terms.

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I've always wanted to be a woman who isn't afraid to tell her story.

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My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.

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When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

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My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.

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As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.

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I like things that are over the top and subtle at the same time.

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I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.

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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

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Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

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I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

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I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.

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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

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I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

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When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

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I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.

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The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

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'Rise Up' is definitely my baby. I think it was a gift because, you know, it's like God just spoke to me and wrote that song. It's very powerful.

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If it looks like your grandma's bedsheets, I'll put it on my body.

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I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.

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I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

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I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.

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I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

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