Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.