I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]." It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more since I did Acoustic Soul, I'm sure that different sounds will come into place, because I have been exposed to it and I like it. But it's not so much of a conscience effort. It's mind and spirited. You know, we're humans.

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.