If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.

You're never promised your next breath.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.