My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.

If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.