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.

Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.

It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

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.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.