When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

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

Miscommunication leads to complication.

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.