I don't intend to stop making music.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I'm not a centerfold.

I had writer's block for almost a year.