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I Have A Structured Songwriting Process. I Start With The Music And Try To Come Up With Musical Ideas, Then The Melody, Then The Hook, And The Lyrics Come Last. Some People Start With The Lyrics First Because They Know What They Want To Talk About And They Just Write A Whole Bunch Of Lyrical Ideas, But For Me The Music Tells Me What To Talk About.

Some People, You Know, Should Just Go To College And Do What They Do And Have A Great Job And Not Worry About Trying To Be Famous As A Singer. It's Not For Everyone.

I Think You're Always Policing Yourself By Trying To Do What You Think Would Be "cool" And Accepted By Other People, Until You Start To Figure Out Who You Really Want To Be. Growing Up Is An Ongoing Push-and-pull Of You Being Yourself And You Performing To What Society Expects You To Be.

But In My Mind I've Always Been A Solo Artist- I've Just Been Working With A Lot Of Great People Like Kanye And Alicia Keys And Jay-z.

My Family Is Very Musical, I Was Surrounded By It. And From Four Years Old I Was The One That Asked My Mother Could I Take Piano Lessons... It Wasn't Forced On Me. It Was Something I Wanted To Do. And Ever Since, I've Never Stopped, I've Never Stopped Playing Music. I Never Went Through A Period Where I Didn't Want To Do It.