That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy.

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

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.