Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.