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

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.

The image is an image.

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."