Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

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've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.