What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he also wanted to bring attention to the lack of a sensibility of African and Asian art.

Music and the music business are two different things.

It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.