"I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around."

"In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them."

"I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff."

"'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it."

"I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California."

"My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock."

"London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place."

"I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal."

"I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson."