I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.