When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

Close your eyes and see what you believe.

The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient.

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

Absolutely, it's a Sunni area. So the key here, once Ramadi is taken that you have the Sunni tribal fighters, Sunni police in there patrolling the city.