I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it. It's always kind of in the back of your mind and - but I think it's part of who I am and always will be, I mean, in a very cellular way. When you grow up doing, you know, one thing, I think you get to this place where you want to try new things. And I do think that we live in the type of world where people get comfortable with you in one way, and so seeing you in a different way, it takes some time.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.