I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time