All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.