“I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a...” — Mya Quote

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.

I was raised on pork... steak, chicken, everything... And everyone in my family pretty much of the older generation has diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer.

My problems are so miniscule compared to what's going on in the world. In that sense, I feel liberated.

This thing we call love has always been tricky, and as beautiful as it can be, we can potentially lose ourselves in it.

I can't always get to the gym, but I make a gym wherever I am: on the floor or on a yoga mat with bodyweight-bearing exercises like sit-ups and crunches, push-ups, lunges, squats.

When 'Joker' came out in '73, I finally got a viral hit. Every DJ who heard it played it.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.

The Padma Shri came as a very pleasant surprise. I am deeply honoured. I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I must have done something right to be honoured by our government.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.