But In My Mind I've Always Been

For Me There's Insecurity When You're Releasing An Album Because You Spend All Of This Time Working On That One Thing And Then Once It's Done, It's Done. After You Put It Out There To The Public You Never Know Which Songs Are Going To Work Or Even If The Album Is Going To Work As A Whole So There Is A Little Bit Of Nervousness Around Predicting What The Numbers Will Be And If It's Going To Be Well-received.

Music Wasn't Forced On Me [in My Childhood]. It Was Something I Wanted To Do. And Ever Since, I've Never Stopped, I've Never Stopped Playing Music.

Even If You Can Sing Or Even If You Can Write A Song, It Takes A Lot Of Determination, It Takes Some Kind Of Thick Skin, Because You Got To Persevere Despite The Fact That People Tell You You Shouldn't Do This Or You Shouldn't Do That Or You're Not Good Enough Or Your Style's Too Different. I've Heard All Of That Stuff.

I Used To Work For A Management Consulting Company, So I Dressed Differently - Business Casual, Probably A Lot Of Things From Banana Republic. My Wardrobe Now Is Definitely More Expensive, But I Always Dress For The Occasion.

I Think It's A Bit Of A Myth That Black Americans Need One Leader. We're Not A Monolith. And Now That Legal Segregation And Discrimination Has Been Pretty Much Abolished There Isn't The Sort Of Universal Mandate That A Black Leader Would Have. Black Folks Live In A Wide Variety Of Social Situations Right Now.