The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

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.

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.