When You're Performing, You're Creating A Moment.

I Take The Same Approach In All Genres Of Art, Across The Board. It's Intuitive.

I'm A Product Of Its [american] Teaching, Of Its Thinking, Of Its -isms, Of Its Religion, Of Its Education. I Am Conditioned, Raised And Developed By America; I Am America. And As It Changes, My Thoughts Also Change. Because No Matter What I Believe, What The Powers-that-be Believe Will Affect Me.

But Now I Realize That This Record Business Really Needs Me. No One Else Is Trying To Take A Chance Or Do Something Different.

I'm A Performance Artist First; I'm A Recording Artist Second.

I Don't Feel Like I Need To Preach To The World Or Nothing Like That. I Just Feel Like I Share What I Say, And If Listeners Get It, They Get It. And I Never Underestimate The Audience's Ability To Feel Me.