I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

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

I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.