I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I don't make any generalizations or closed statements. There always has to be room for interpretation.

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

This has always been my problem with genres is that they've turned into marketing tools. I've never been a person that allows themselves to be in any kind of box and I think that genres can be used as tools to define BPM or something but I think they're suffocating of music and other art. And I think they're inaccurate when they come to describing my work. Maybe other people like defining it, but I don't.

There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.