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

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.

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

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.

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.