I Never Sit Down To Write. When

You Can Be Around 100 People And Be Completely Alone. People Don't Realize What It's Really Like.

The Image Is An Image.

I Was An Actor When I Was A Teenager And It Could Have Been The Direction That I Headed In. But Music And My Relationship With Music Is Quite Deep, And It Really Is The Nucleus Of My Creativity. So I Gave Up Acting So I Could Pursue Music Fully, And I Never Thought About Really Going Back. And Then [director] Lee Daniels Met Me And Wanted To Work With Me, And That's How It Started.

The Idea Of Having To Conform To Someone Else's Ideal Is Unacceptable. I'm Gonna Be Me. And If I Can't Be Me, Then I'd Rather Not Do It.

After Listening To "machine Gun" I Have To Take A Nap.