Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.

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

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

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.