India Arie
India Arie

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

India Arie
India Arie

To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

India Arie
India Arie

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

India Arie
India Arie

You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.

India Arie
India Arie

Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood.

India Arie
India Arie

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

India Arie
India Arie

Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals?

India Arie
India Arie

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

India Arie
India Arie

It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.

India Arie
India Arie

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

India Arie
India Arie

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

India Arie
India Arie

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

India Arie
India Arie

I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder.

India Arie
India Arie

Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state.

India Arie
India Arie

Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!'

India Arie
India Arie

I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.

India Arie
India Arie

If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change.

India Arie
India Arie

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

India Arie
India Arie

Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it.

India Arie
India Arie

If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different.