The Idea Of Having To

When I'm Making My Music, I'm Writing It, I'm Producing It, I'm Playing All The Instruments, I'm Performing. It's My Own World Where I Do What I Feel, And Nobody Tells Me Anything.

I Get A Lot Of Joy From Playing Instruments, And I Have A Different Personality On Each Instrument. I Like To Let That Come Out. I Get Kind Of Selfish.

We Weren't Put Here To Be Miserable. We Were Put Here To Do The Best We Can, And We Should Take Our Energy And Improve Our State Of Being.

They Think I'm Being Serious When Actually I'm A Very Big Clown. But You Have To Know Me To See That. I'm Constantly Cracking Up And Cracking Everybody Else Around Me Up.

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.