I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.