Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

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

My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

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.