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I Started Out Making Furniture Because I Couldn't Find Certain Things, And Then I Really Got Into It.

For Me A Watch Is A Really Beautiful Instrument. I Don't So Much Care What Time It Is But I Do Love Watches, And I Love How They're Constructed.

It Doesn't Take A Lot To Get Me Motivated. I'm A Studio Rat. When I Was In High School And I Would Walk Into A Recording Studio, It Felt Like This Magical Place, This Temple, This Womb That I Could Escape Into.

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.

I Was Taught By My Grandfather That Anything That Your Mind Can Conceive, You Can Have. It's A Reality.