When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.