It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.

You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.