As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.