When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.