We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.