Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.