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

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

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.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

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

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.