I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

I think there are a lot of dudes out there that are runnin' out of gas. Some of my favourites, even ones I look up to... I haven't been fully impressed with their dynamics of makin' a body of work that makes sense to me.