At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

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