San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.

I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social change I could be, so I try to find different ways to do it and I'm always challenging myself to find new things, learn new instruments. But I always try to find in my heart, what it is I really want to say with words.

Be who you are, nothing more... nothing less.

Power to the peaceful!