Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2017 10:03:49 GMT -4
Meeting Prince: “One of the greatest artists who ever walked the earth is Prince; I’m highly influenced by him. I’ll never forget when I met him — I was 21 or 22 — and he’d heard about my music. I was trembling when I met him; I’d seen him on TV for years, and here he was. I told him he was a god. And he said: ‘No, no, no. God is god’.”
Music online: “There’s no regulation or responsibility to anyone who services all these platforms for the content they use. It’s like a body with no soul. You need the soul to make the body move.”
Racism: “I’ve experienced it as a person of color — a black man, whatever you think I am — but I understand all of it. And I’ve experienced racism from black people because my mother is from Haiti.”
Social media: “I think that the mob is fickle. …We have to take into consideration that we’re dealing with computers and you never know if it’s coming from the person (purportedly) writing it. There are pages (in my name) that are not associated with me. There are ways to make computers say and do things in my name that are not (from) me. That’s why you see so many artists pull back from social media.”
The diminishing value of music: “People wonder why music is not as good as it was (before). Why should it be? It’s not celebrated, or honored, or rewarded like it used to be. People take the creative things for granted in this digital age, because it’s so instantaneous to them.”
