Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise that I can write, but I don't really have an avenue to show it 'cause most of the things I'm writing are in Hip Hop.