The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.