Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up.

There's a lot of players I look up to, and I hope that I can be a role model to young female guitar players. Hopefully they can believe in themselves more.

There aren't too many female guitar players.

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.