I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.

I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.