There are rules but there's really no wrong way.

I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree