When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.

We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

I was never like, "Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes". Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.