At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'.

I got problems, can't sleep at night. Cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night.

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.