I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.