I associate creativity with independent music.

I know I'm a very dynamic performer. Once you come to the show, you're gonna want to have the album. I think it's more about showing people that it's OK to share similarities, but it's more important to embrace your individuality.

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

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

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

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.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.