Anita baker

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip,...

I need my career. That's what validates me.