If I Were White, I'd Get Less

My Mother Always Told Me To Embrace Both Sides Of My Background. And She Also Taught Me One Very Useful Thing When I Was Going To First Grade. She Said, "you're Bahamian And African-american On One Side, And Russian-jewish On The Other. You're No More One Than The Other, And It's Beautiful That You Have All This. It Makes Your Life All The More Rich. But Society Will See You Only As Black."

I Wanted To Make Something That Sounded Very Pure, Organic, And Personal. I Wanted To Make Music That Was Timeless.

A Lot Of My Songs Deal With Spirituality And God, And I Guess If You're In Tune With That, You'll Read Into It.

You Can Start Something, Do It, And Believe That That's What You're Doing, But Then The Inspiration Comes And It's Like, "nope, This Is What It Is."

We Have So Many Distractions. We're Losing The Family Unit. We're Losing The One-on-one. We're Becoming Extremely Narcissistic. And We Have To Be Careful About That. There's A Lot To Deal With Out There.