Everybody wants more carries. But whatever they give me I'm happy for. Whatever they give me . . . whatever they ask me to do, I'm going to do, I told myself coming in here.

Whatever happens, happens. Whatever they do, I'll have to deal with it. I've been dealing with all kind of stuff for the last four years. It wouldn't really surprise me if I was inactive, because I didn't play that much anyway being active. So that wouldn't be that much different.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.