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.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

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.

I think all music is a gift from God.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.