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.

I don't pull, I just receive.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret.

When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.