When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. You know what I'm saying? I feel like people can feel when something is natural.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.