Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

The Universe energy doesn't lie.