God Said, Here. Have It. Enjoy It.

I Was An Actor When I Was A Teenager And It Could Have Been The Direction That I Headed In. But Music And My Relationship With Music Is Quite Deep, And It Really Is The Nucleus Of My Creativity. So I Gave Up Acting So I Could Pursue Music Fully, And I Never Thought About Really Going Back. And Then [director] Lee Daniels Met Me And Wanted To Work With Me, And That's How It Started.

Jimi Hendrix Was Just So Fluid. His Hands Were Connected To His Soul, You Know? His Playing Was Just So Emotional. You Could Feel The Fire, You Could Feel The Blues. You Could Feel The Sadness. It's Unbelievable.

What Motivates It Is Life. Life Is Everything. Life Influences My Music And Brings It Forth. Life Is Always Changing, So I'm Always Hearing New Music.

We've Always Just Gotten Up There And Played. We Don't Have Any Dancers, We Don't Have All That Stuff Going On, We Just Get Up There And Play.

Good Design Is Being Able To Put A $100,000 Thing Next To A $20 Thing. If It Looks Right And It Works Then It Works. It Doesn't Have To Be Expensive; It's All About The High Meets Low For Me.