I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.