But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I grew up listening to old soul

I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.