You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

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.

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

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.