I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

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

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.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.