All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonnas eyebrows. I think its beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.