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.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.