If I Were White, I'd Get Less

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.

It's A Trip To Have A Greatest Hits Record. It's A Trip.

The Thing I Love About Acting Is That It's Got Nothing To Do With Me; It's About Bringing Forth A Director's Vision. It's Like A Release. I'm Glad It's Come Back Into My Life.

I'm Just As White As I Am Black, And I'm Just As Russian Jew As I Am West Indian.

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.