I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

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.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

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'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.