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.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

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

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?