I Guess A Lot Of Times Pressure

Soul Is About Authenticity. Soul Is About Finding The Things In Your Life That Are Real And Pure.

I Was The Front Man Of The Choir And Then When I Was 12 And I Was The Leadsinger Of My Highschool Groups.

In My Neighborhood In Springfield, Ohio, There Were A Lot Of Young Kids. We All Played Tackle Football After School, But I Knew Very Early On That I Was Not An Athlete.

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.

As A Young Black Boy, It Made Me Proud To See Black Leaders That Did Something Amazing And Made The World Change.