1. Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along. 2. Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
4. I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.
5. I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
7. If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.
9. In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.
10. Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.
12. The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.
13. The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.
15. There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
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