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You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.