My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Love is more than one thing.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.