If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.