It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Of course awards matter.