Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

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 was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about something that happened earlier and I feel like I'm just a good guy, I don't cut people off, I don't really call people out when they do stuff that they should be called out on, and I'm just always the one being the bigger person. So, that day "Gangster" just came out. That's just how I feel in that day to day life.

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.