I don't want to be the next face of America.
Mark my words, even if I sell out a club of 15,000 with all girls, I'm not taking my shirt off. I'm sorry. I know y'all are waiting to see the pasty stomach and everything.
The only way I'm comfortable with a new album is if I'm taking a new risk.
I am a failed visual artist.
The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.
Musicians are all about celebrity first and foremost, and I just can't do it. The second any sort of popularity contest comes into the picture, I have to walk in the other direction. These people are sociopaths.
Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.
Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to hit right.
I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work. That said, if someone thinks what I do specifically would work for their film, then, of course, let's see what we can do.
I've traveled a lot, I've rapped a lot. I like to think that's all in the toolbox to be tapped into when I need it.
I'd love it if one of my songs became a hit.
I know so many people that were really able to lead 'perfect' lives. They meet the right person, they make the babies, they get the jobs, they get the house and it's essentially a smooth ride. That really didn't happen for me.
I would say the best toy for any cat is always some sort of dangling item on a string or fishing-rod-type structure.
Finding something new that I know I've never done before is the best feeling I know, and when I get there it's all worth it.
If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.
I want to stay learning and hopefully allow my craft to evolve.
I don't want to hit a point where I feel there is nothing to improve upon - there always is.
I am hoping to improve my writing and rapping, as well as get a better grasp on how to make beats and music that complements what I do vocally. It's a learning process that hopefully won't end.
I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.
I think I learned very quickly after I started putting out music... you just learn that people are going to take what they want and make it fit their agenda or make it fit their interpretation. And you make peace with that or you suffer forever.
