I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

Bullying is a national epidemic.

I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.