I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

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!