It's scary and uncomfortable releasing music that is close to you.

I definitely study the greats.

I really wish I could have collaborated with Prince before he passed.

We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

I love Toronto.

One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.

I remember being really, really young and watching Prince and Michael Jackson concert DVDs. One of my favorites is Prince's 'Rave Un2 The Year 2000.'

People always make me uncomfortable when they ask me: 'Who's this song about?' I feel like I let you read my diary and now we have to have a conversation about it! I already let you read it, let's just leave it at that.

It took me a while to want to do interviews.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

I represent young black women, and I'm proud of that.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

I just want to give back to the community that raised me now that I've gotten to a point where I can do that.

I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.

It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that's what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.

I think most women, we have intuition. We always know what we always want to find out. We always want to be wrong, and we hate when we're right at the end of the day. People say we love to be right. That's not true. We don't like to be right, because usually we know when it's the truth.

I was playing music since I was 6 or 7. I felt that music was a given to me.

After I graduated from high school, I was like, let's see what happens. I took the time to develop my artistry and my songs, and tried to figure out who I am and what my message is.

I'm half-Filipino and Filipinos love karaoke.

I will say about my fans, from day one they've been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.

I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song, that helped my writing so much.