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.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

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

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

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.