I've Always Been On A Personal Mission

The Real Estate Agent Had To Go Door-to-door In The Apartment Building We Wanted To Rent, Asking If It Was Ok For This Interracial Family - My Mom Is White And I Was A 1-year-old Half-african Kid - To Live In The Apartment Building.

My Parents Met In Kenya. My Father Is African, Is Kenyan. The Kenyan Side Of My Family Was Involved In The Anticolonial Movement.

Charles Manson Loved The Beatles But Didn’t Understand Them. Governor Chris Christie Loves Bruce Springsteen But Doesn’t Understand Him. And Paul Ryan Is Clueless About His Favorite Band, Rage Against The Machine.

I Think That New Artistic Challenges Help You Grow Both As A Person, As An Artist, And Then They Feed Back Into Your Other Work, And Tend To Magnify It.

Being A Musician Is A Given For Me-i Didn't Have Much Choice In The Matter.