I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.
I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

