Everyone Is Looking For Connections Between The

I Think It's Important, If You Are An Artist, To Use Your Music To Stand Up For What You Believe In.

I Found Myself In The Middle Of A Race Riot When I Was About 14 Years Old, And I Found Someone Pointing A Gun At Me And Telling Me To Run Or They'd Shoot Me.

As A Child I Always Had A Sense Of Social Conditions And Political Situations. I Think It Had To Do With The Fact That My Mother Was Always Discussing Things With My Sister And Me - Also Because I Read A Lot.

I Meet People In My Daily Life, People Who Seem To Experience Some Change And Some Growth On A Personal Level, And That Gives Me Hope.

We Have More Media Than Ever And More Technology In Our Lives. It's Supposed To Help Us Communicate, But It Has The Opposite Effect Of Isolating Us.