I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.