My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

To me, beauty is a lived thing.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.