We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.