“No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.”

I’m not afraid to have the ratchet side because that’s a part of me too. I like to turn up, I am from Oakland.

There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

You last throughout the ages and you’re able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

It’s a competitive city, it’s full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

I don’t like to veer away from the truth because I think that’s what people have fallen in love with about my music.

He is fearless and the way he comes to the music is like we share the same passion for what we do and with somebody from the West. In my opinion that would be a great collaboration.

I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later.

As long as it doesn’t veer away from who I am, I’m down with it.

They can go through the history and see a trail.

I feel that’s why people can connect so well with it because it’s all honest.

I can’t be passionate about something that I don’t understand. In my music.

My music is very raw, it’s emotional, and it’s honest.

Love and heartbreak is something that’s always been a part of me.

But at the same time, there’s still a classy side to me that I’ve seen in Oakland as well.

I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.

Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.

There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.