You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.

There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.