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I Used Read About Dr. King A Lot As A Kid. Independently, From Being Assigned It Or Being Told By My Parents Or Anything, I Was Just Really Excited About Him. So I Just Started Reading About Him Very Young And Was Inspired By His Legacy And Looked To Him As A Role Model.

There's So Much Music Out There, And So Many Different Styles That I've Been Influenced By, So Each Album Reflects Some Of That Knowledge Or Influence That I've Had.

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.

If I Collaborate With People, Ideas...they Take Interesting Turns And Twists, And I'm Excited For That And That Process And Excited To See What We Come Up With.

The Main Focus For Me Is Not Trying To Find Duet Partners. It's About Just Making Great Songs. I Want Most Of My Album To Be In My Voice, Because It's My Point Of View.