I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.

Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.

Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."