All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.