The Image That The Public Gets Is

People Feel They Have To Live That Stereotypical Lifestyle In Order To Be A Rock Star. You Don't Have To Shoot Heroin And Act A Certain Way To Be A Rock And Roll Musician.

God Said, Here. Have It. Enjoy It. I'm Gonna Be Miserable?

A Lot Of People Pretty Much Only Listen To The Chorus.

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 Really Didn't Know A Lot Of Rock 'n' Roll Until I Moved To L.a. Before That, When I Was In New York, I Grew Up Listening Mostly To R&b And Soul And Jazz.