Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained.
Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.
I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.
Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.
I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.
Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.
In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.
Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.
Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.
I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.
I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.
I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.
My sister and I truly are best friends.
Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.
I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.
My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.
I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.
I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.
I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.
