The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.