It's the right thing to do. Hopefully some of the other performers in town will follow suit.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the 'it' factor.