I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

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.

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.

If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

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.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.