I like to make stuff and I try to stay busy.

I like feeling warm inside a small home, knowing there's a set of glowing eyes out in the woods somewhere. It's just a vibe I enjoy writing about, and it deals simultaneously with safety and danger.

I feel like a lot of times, when making a one-song collab with someone, it's easy for one person to not be fully invested. I guess you'd call that 'mailing it in.' But when you say 'This is our album,' then all parties have a reason to make it as good as possible, and the goal becomes seeing what we can do together as a unit.

I used to do a lot of one-off collabs, features, stuff like that.

People will put me in whatever box they feel the most comfortable having me in, and nothing I can do will change that.

I guess, for me, the idea of finding an identity through creative means has always been a way to deal with otherwise feeling awkward and uncomfortable out in the world.

I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.

I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on a rap beat.

I just try to reflect the grittiness in New York. I try to protect the grit and the dirt that comes with it, which is a good thing.

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

I'm never really comfortable; I think it's kind of natural to feel uncomfortable, and I think if people say they are comfortable, they're just lying.

Every record I do does a little better than the last, which in turn makes me more stressed out.

Performing is fine.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

I don't like being away from home for a long period of time.

I've been writing for a long time.

People can label me whatever they like. I don't really care any more.

People's opinions outside of my direct group of friends means next to nothing.

When you're younger, you really care who your fans are.

I've performed in Japan before, as well as many other non-English speaking countries. I find you really just have to be a bit more animated than usual. Call-and-response routines work well, if they are simple. Otherwise, I just dance around like a circus monkey and hope the crowd feels it.

I'm not a celebrity or anything.

It's a strange position to be in. Not only the fact that I'm trying to live off work that is personal, but how you get the money for that is racing around the country and smiling for people and selling the record, you know what I mean?

You think of, like, Justin Timberlake. He does a three-hour performance every night, and it's like, wow, I don't know how that guy does it.

I always find my emotions all over the map, not so much a single thing overriding the rest.