A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

I'm all about authenticity.

Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me.

I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.

Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people.

Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand.

It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together.