When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.