I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.