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Once my heart is broken, it's very hard for me to function at all. The last time my heart was broken, I hid out.
I've just gotten another movie called 'Hustle and Flow'. I wanna be an all-round entertainer. I've paid my dues and I'm growing.
I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.
I give and give, even when I get nothing back-and that sets me up for disappointment.
With my new album, I wanted to show my growth as an artist, as well as trying to remain consistent to my style.
Eye candy for this generation has been a gyrating bed onstage, the whole simulated sex thing. Now, that's fine on the Love Boat, but when people would see Luther come down a grand staircase, they jumped up outta their seats. Same with Patti LaBelle!
Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'
I can be strong for everybody except myself. I can tell somebody, 'Hey, keep it together', but I can't take my own advice.
As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
Yes, it actually has. But ultimately, what I've been doing is simply allowing soul to represent me. We just played the Paradiso in Amsterdam, and I gotta tell you, the whole place was dancing all night. I really don't like seated concerts.
They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.
Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
People are just lazy-why don't we just book a theater and have no audience interaction at all? To have a good time at a concert, you gotta lose the chairs.
The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.
I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.
I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.
I'm a Sag. I'll give you the shirt off my back.
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