Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

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.

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.