I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.