Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty. . . that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.
So many people didn’t want to touch the project with a 10-foot pole. Literally, I had people laughing and saying, ‘You’re making an album? Good luck. ’ … But if you sit down and talk music with me for 10 minutes, you know that’s my passion.