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.

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.

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.

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

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

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