You Learn So Much From Taking Chances,

In Terms Of The Technology I Use The Most, It's Probably A Tie Between My Blackberry And My Macbook Pro Laptop. That's How I Communicate With The Rest Of The World And How I Handle All The Business I Have To Handle.

Music Business Is Not For Everyone. But If You Have It In You, You Have That Passion, If You Have That Energy In You That You Really Want To Make Something Creative And Make Something That's Going To Impact The World, Then Go For It, Do It And Don't Let Anybody Tell You No.

Soul Is About Authenticity. Soul Is About Finding The Things In Your Life That Are Real And Pure.

Music Wasn't Forced On Me [in My Childhood]. It Was Something I Wanted To Do. And Ever Since, I've Never Stopped, I've Never Stopped Playing Music.

I Think It's A Bit Of A Myth That Black Americans Need One Leader. We're Not A Monolith. And Now That Legal Segregation And Discrimination Has Been Pretty Much Abolished There Isn't The Sort Of Universal Mandate That A Black Leader Would Have. Black Folks Live In A Wide Variety Of Social Situations Right Now.