What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.