Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

If I can't do that at age 33, I'll probably never be able to do it. As you enter your thirties, things get a little more squiggly, with life spreading out in different directions. All of that makes me think that now's the time to do what you really want to do and not have that same type of youthful anxiety about every step.

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.