My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.
I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.
I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.
We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.
You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.
If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.