There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.