I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore. Meshell Ndegeocello More Quotes by Meshell Ndegeocello More Quotes From Meshell Ndegeocello My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him. Meshell Ndegeocello i-love-him doors beautiful I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do. Meshell Ndegeocello stories song trying I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing. Meshell Ndegeocello paris color midnight Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being. Meshell Ndegeocello leader names wonder I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them. Meshell Ndegeocello melody enjoy thinking I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician. Meshell Ndegeocello musician soldier thinking The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe. Meshell Ndegeocello No one knows anything for sure. Meshell Ndegeocello knows