I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.