The image is an image.

I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

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."

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.