There are a couple of homeopathic things that can be done, but you can't really beat good rest and lots of water. That's the honest truth. Making sure I'm well-rested and hydrated makes a big difference. Warm water and honey is a go-to, I don't really drink tea unless it's absolutely organic, because otherwise the caffeine will dry my voice out for some reason.

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

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

There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.