You Get Educated By Traveling.

I've Also Learned To Only Write Songs And Melodies That Really Work For My Voice And That I Won't Have Issues Doing Live. Because You Can Get Really, Really Comfortable In The Comping Process: Out Of Five Takes, Maybe One Of Those High Notes That You Struggled To Do, Nailed It, And Then Live You're Having That Challenge Of Really Having To Recreate That.

A Lot Of Times I Use Live Musicians, But I Don't Want It To Have That Live Funky Sound So I'll Just Take The Best Loop Of A Drum Part And Repeat It Over And Over And Over Again So That There's Consistency And It Feels A Little Bit More Programmed. But I Have A Love/hate Relationship With Comping As Well.

My Parents Only Played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's When New Kids Came Out, And We Wanted To Jam That. My Mom Was Like, "put That Thing Off And Put My Damn Record On". So From Old School To '90s To Recent, It's Just Always Been There.

Style Is The Way We Communicate Who We Are To People Before We Open Our Mouths.

I Actually Love My Natural Hair When It's In A Twist Out And It's Been Slept On For Five Days And Revived By The Steam Of The Shower.