I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.