Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

The New Black doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation: it’s a mentality and it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side you’re going to be on.

More than anything, I wanted to make sure that everybody was a pusher of difference. And they had to be able to do it in a communicative way, not esoterically. Because there are a lot of people who push things forward but sometimes only you and two people out of 500 in the room get it, but you want somebody who has mastered their craft so well that an 8-year-old gets it just like an 80-year-old gets it. They get the same visceral feeling.