I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.