We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.

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.

I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.