There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.