I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

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

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

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