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

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

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.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place