My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

I don't remember feeling love.

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.