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on Wikipedia, they called me a feminist musician. I don't think so. I don't see myself that way. But if that's how somebody sees it, OK, whatever. But I don't know how anyone could not feel how I do about ... women being violated. And it's rampant. Maybe it's something spiritual inside me. Maybe I have that experience in my DNA.Back to the subject of music, you've been in the game for a while now. How do you think you've affected the next generation of artists coming up behind you?
I have no idea. I'm not even removed enough to know yet. Cause for me, inside of me looking out, I'm still trying to make it. There's just so much I haven't done yet. Like I just was telling you, this is the first album I made that sounds like what I meant. You know, I'm a Stevie Wonder fanatic; for me this is my Music of My Mind.
I feel like I wanna quit after I make every album. After every album, I say I'm gonna quit. After Testimony: Vol. 1, I really was taking steps to quit. But in my quiet prayer time, there's always this feeling inside that's like, "Well, keep going because there's people you're inspiring." Even though I want to attach my mind to the stuff that happens that I don't like -- like all the negative, ego-driven people in the music industry; all the music critics who are rude for no reason; and the parts of it that seem so unfair, like why would they play "Drop It Down the Pole" but you can barely hear [soul vocalist] Lalah Hathaway on the radio? Sometimes that stuff hurts so bad, it makes me latch onto that instead of remembering that I'm actually doing good. I bought my own home. My family is good. There's a whole, I guess, generation of female artists coming behind me who ... somebody must be inspired by me. I don't look at it that way -- like, "Look what I've done for them." But only in my quiet moments, I know that the best thing I've done ... is inspire people. I don't know how. I don't think about it because I'm trying to make it. It's crazy. It's been an interesting ride.
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