From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies