I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.