It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.