Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.