I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

I'm not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

You put a piece of music out, and it's not in your hands anymore, and that's cool with me.

I strongly believe in the art form of the album.

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

I don't hate Jay-Z. I think he's dope.

There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple as two people actually being friends, actually enjoying what they're doing, or actually standing up for each other, that translates in a big way.

I was raised by women. The men in my life were either not there or not good when they were there.

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense. I basically grew up all my life without a car.

I literally have a massive database of cat sounds.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.

'The Venture Bros' are my jam.

We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky proposition. In my life, I try to leave the people I encounter with the feeling that they have been respected and treated with warmth and appreciation.

The people who talk the most about God are people who are the least like God.

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

The thing about Steven Seagal is that he clearly wants to be a great person, but he just doesn't know how.

I'm not a 'dystopian, futuristic master': I'm a schnook walking the street. It's an insane reality we're living in, and I'm just trying to translate it for myself.

I think that Gordon Ramsay is maybe one of the most entertaining people ever on television. And I would love to pretend to be Gordon Ramsay and walk into a restaurant uninvited and attempt to make them change their menu. It's just a personal fantasy of mine.

I just love Steven Seagal for his pure - his perspective on what being a hero is: just a purely evil, cruel perspective.

When I'm not feeling something, I have a very hard time doing it.