I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.
I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.
I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees
The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.
My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.
Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.
Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?
I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.
Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
