Any Decision I Make Is Based On

Our Mother Always Taught Us To Be In Control Of Our Voice And Our Bodies And Our Work, And She Showed Us That Through Her Example. If She Conjured Up An Idea, There Was Not One Element Of That Idea That She Was Not Going To Have Her Hand In. She Was Not Going To Hand That Over To Someone. And I Think It's Been An Interesting Thing To Navigate, Especially Watching You Do The Same In All Aspects Of Your Work: Society Labels That A Control Freak, An Obsessive Woman, Or Someone Who Has An Inability To Trust Her Team Or To Empower Other People To Do The Work, Which Is Completely Untrue.

There Were Things That Had Been Weighing Heavy On Me For Quite Some Time. And I Went Into This Hole, Trying To Work Through Some Of These Things So That I Could Be A Better Me And Be A Better Mom To Julez And Be A Better Wife And A Better Friend And A Better Sister.

My Parents Only Played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's When New Kids Came Out, And We Wanted To Jam That. My Mom Was Like, "put That Thing Off And Put My Damn Record On". So From Old School To '90s To Recent, It's Just Always Been There.

The Album ['a Seat At The Table'] Really Feels Like Storytelling For Us All And Our Family And Our Lineage.

As An Artist, Everybody Has The Opportunity To Celebrate And Speak Their Truth.