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.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

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.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.