When I Stopped Trying To Write Songs,

I Think It'd Be A Real Nightmare To Put A Record Out And Sell 20 Million Copies And Then That's It.

My Dream Is To Become A Farmer. Just A Bohemian Guy Pulling Up His Own Sweet Potatoes For Dinner.

When I'm Doing Interiors - Especially The Ones Where You Really Have Full Creative Freedom - It's About Creating An Environment For People To Feel So Comfortable And At Ease. I Want Them To Become Inspired To Live And Feel Better.

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 Used To Do Plays And Some Television Commercials When I Was Younger. I Guess My Mom's Being An Actress Got Me Interested In That, But Music Definitely Took Its Place.