For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.