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

Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

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

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

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

For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.