James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

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?

I love both my parents dearly.

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