The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.