My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.