I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

What I count as real prosperity... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.

I believe in second chances and I have strong faith in God that he forgives our sins.