In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.