I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.