I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.