Collaboration is the way to go. It's very timely and fun to do.

I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.