I just like to be dangerous with what I try to do.

The city is always influential in the work, though I've had that temptation to leave, but only recently. It's difficult because whenever I start working someplace else, I'm like, "Man, this would have been better if I had my subwoofer."

Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.

More than ever, I had to analyze my mental state over the past couple of years because of all the things that happened since the last album came out. Just being surrounded by lots of noise - good and bad - and still being able to try to hold onto some kind of identity for myself.

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.