Music Is Hugely Important To Me.

My Parents Are The Coolest Of The Cool On Every Single Level, And It's Because They Have A Deep Appreciation For Every Moment Of Their Lives.

I Think You Make Mistakes, Especially In Your Twenties, Where You Date Guys You Wouldn't Even Be Friends With - Ever.

In High School, I Was On The Youth Advisory Council For The Mayor's Office Of Los Angeles, And That Was Kind Of My First Experience In The Bureaucratic System. We Tried To Get Things Done, And Nobody Was Really Interested In Getting Anything Done.

Mostly, Though, College Was Me Trying To Look Cooler Than I Was. There Were Definitely Some Carhartt Jeans And Backward Kangol Caps In My Repertoire.

I'm Lucky Because I Have So Many Clashing Cultural, Racial Things Going On: Black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I Can Float And Be Part Of Any Community I Want. The Thing Is, I Do Identify With Being Black, And If People Don't Identify Me That Way That's Their Issue. I’m Happy To Challenge People's Understanding Of What It Looks Like To Be Biracial, Because Guess What? In The Next 50 Years, People Will Start Looking More And More Like Me.