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I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.
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I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.
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I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.
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At the start of high school, I looked like a girl... to a very major degree. I had really long hair and a really round face with no facial hair. And I went to a very rough high school.
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Driving around with my dad, growing up, he would play everything: Philip Bailey, Manhattan Transfer, Frank Zappa, Cream. I'd be like, 'Dad, cut this stuff off!' And he'd say, 'No, you're gonna listen to it.' I didn't understand why he liked it so much. In my mind, I would be thinking about the theme song to 'Sonic the Hedgehog.'
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When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don't like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them - I'm making people listen to the 'Final Fantasy' soundtrack, and they're like, 'Why is this happening? Let's just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.'
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Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.
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Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.
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I'm left-handed.
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I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.
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Singing and playing live can be difficult. Like, in the studio, I would record either the music track first or the vocal first. I don't necessarily do them together.
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Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.
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I don't think it's corny to pray at all.
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I've paid attention to guys growin' up like Richard Pryor or Paul Mooney. The message that they were sending with what they did was so much bigger than them.
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If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.
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My first reaction to playing at Coachella was like a kid who has no idea of the rules. I just wanted to go have a jam session with my friends. I didn't get that we couldn't just jump on one another's stages while they were performing!
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When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.
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You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.
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I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.
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Even if you didn't want to have anything to do with the politics, you have to.
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At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.
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Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.
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I hate studios; I'll be honest with you. People get weird in the studio. I've had some great and terrible times with people. People's personalities come out in the worst way.
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Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.
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There's worse things in life than death.
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I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.
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I personally didn't realize people would enjoy my voice, I guess. I'm happy that they do, but I didn't know what to expect.
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I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.
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You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.
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'Looney Tunes' was not a children's cartoon. I don't care what anybody says. It was very politically charged, very racial. And then they tried to soften it up for kids later. But it was for the adults.
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