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

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

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.