I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

Let us restore trust back to our society

There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

You are the books you read!!!

Eminem is the greatest, ever.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.