Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person..

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at..

I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about so….

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything..

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book..

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot o….

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like ….

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage..

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. ….

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can..

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been ve….

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for th….

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel..

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I coul….

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to ….

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so mu….

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into….

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time..

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting..

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me....

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent..