Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.