I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

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."

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative way. But I primarily work by myself, that's my process. When I'm acting, I'm there to serve the director and the character. I'm here to give you what you need. Communicate that to me and I will do what I need to do to get that. So that's what it's about.