Most people know my music based on the singles, and think of it as scandalously romantic. There's definitely a romantic vibe, but I often sing things that are very direct. I don't beat around the bush much.

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

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.

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

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

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