My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.

I won't even take jobs where you get paid to sit with a group of friends and party. That's never been my vibe.

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now