I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.