I go through phases of stuff.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

I grew up listening to old soul