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.

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

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

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.