Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

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.

When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.