Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it.

With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

When I'm there, I'm not here. I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?