I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.

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.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

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.