A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.