Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

I need my man to be my homie.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.