The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

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

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.

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

If you don't believe inside yourself that you can learn a lot, nobody's ever going to do that for you. Nobody's ever gonna give you self drive. Nobody's ever gonna give you self esteem. Nobody's ever gonna give you your self worth. You have to set it for yourself.

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.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.