I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they say if you wanna see God just look around. We can't make this, it's all creation, so I appreciate that.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.