If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.