I believe I am of the natural.

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

I believe I am of the natural.

You're only as strong as your weakest link so you've got to make sure everybody in your crew is on point.

My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.

I was never blinded by the American dream. I have my own dreams. You know what I'm saying? The Joey dream.

Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that it's not a black people problem, it's a human problem. We all can't be at peace until we are all at peace. If there's a piece of us suffering, then we are all suffering. That's what it's about. That's the macro level.