The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.