Making Your Moves, Paying Your Dues, Chasing

The Rewards We Get By Being Those Weird Guys Going Against The Grain To Me Are Way More Massive Than Selling A Million Billion Records. I Like Climbing Mountains Or Going On Undersea Dives For Whales And Stuff Like That.

If You Feel Comfortable, And You Feel Happy, And Successful At Your Job, Then That's Success. You Define That As Success, Then That's Success. Success Is Not A General Thing. It's A Personal Thing. It's A Personal Attribute.

I Love Jazz. So To Me, There Are Two Main Types Of Jazz. There's Dancing Jazz, And Then There's Listening Jazz. Listening Jazz Is Like Thelonius Monk Or John Coltrane, Where It's A Listening Experience. So That's What I Like; I Like To Make Stuff That You Listen To. It's Not Really Meant To Get You Up; It's Meant To Get Your Mind Focused. That's Why You Sit And Listen To Jazz. You Dance To Big Band Or Whatever, But For The Most Part, You Sit And Listen To Jazz. I Think It Comes From That Aesthetic, Trying To Take That Jazz Listening Experience And Put It On Hip-hop.

I Don't Think That Politics Are As Complex As People Like To Make Them Seem Or Out To Be.

It Definitely Wasn't Like, 'hey, I'm Going To Steal That, And Nobody's Going To Know.' The Original 't.r.o.y.' Came Out In 1992, And It Was Like A 20th Anniversary Kind Of Thing. All Of Those Intentions Were There For It To Be Resurrecting A Classic For A New Generation. I Tried To Honor It.