I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?

It hurts when people put you down.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.