A Dramatic Thing, The First

Today, People Are More Into The Glitz And The Glamour Of Everything. We Don't Even Read The Inside Of Records Anymore.

You've Got Your Entourage And People That Help You Make Whatever Happen Around You. Everything's Crazy And You're Not Paying Attention To Your Inner Feelings Because You're So Busy. I Couldn't Take It.

You Need To Open Up So That More Comes Through. And You Can Just Feel That When Your Ego Is Not In The Way And When You're Letting It Be What It Wants To Be. You Have To Let It Be What It Wants To Be As Opposed To What You Think It Should Be.

Me Being In My Grandmother's Yard In Brooklyn. I Must Have Been About 3. I Had This Red Balloon. I Let Go Of It, And It Went Up Into The Sky And Just Kept Going And Going. I Completely Flipped Out, Because I Didn't Understand Why.

My Mother's Side Of The Family Is From The Bahamas, And I Spent Time There On And Off When I Was Growing Up. It's The Place Where I Feel At Peace.