My First Gig Was At Radio City

I Was Born At A Very Crucial Time. I Consider 1968 To Be The Mason Dixon Line Between Pre- And Post-civil Rights Generation Ideas, Whereas A Lot Of People Born Before '68 They Kind Of Went Into That Moses Mentality. Like, I'm Not Going To Make It, You Know, I Don't Have Any Hope.

All We Sell Is The Greatest Feeling On Earth

I Do Secret Stand-up Shows Around New York. I Announce And Tweet This To Nobody - I Get Onstage And I Do A Quick Five Minutes.

After 2001, Everyone In The Soulquarians Blew Up, Which Wasn't Expected. We All Got The Success, And Then Everybody Froze.

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.