An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'
Any obsession is dangerous.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan]. And because I felt safe, Sam[L. Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.
Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.
We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.
With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.