Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

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.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.