I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

I don’t think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop’s ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.