I Knew Slash In High School, But

It Doesn't Take A Lot To Get Me Motivated. I'm A Studio Rat. When I Was In High School And I Would Walk Into A Recording Studio, It Felt Like This Magical Place, This Temple, This Womb That I Could Escape Into.

I Just Live My Life And Try To Be Present.

My Mother Always Told Me To Embrace Both Sides Of My Background. And She Also Taught Me One Very Useful Thing When I Was Going To First Grade. She Said, "you're Bahamian And African-american On One Side, And Russian-jewish On The Other. You're No More One Than The Other, And It's Beautiful That You Have All This. It Makes Your Life All The More Rich. But Society Will See You Only As Black."

We Should Take Time Out To Really Love; We Should Take Time Out To Find Out Who We Are.

I Honestly Don't Remember How I Wrote Or Did The Songs. Or The Sessions. They All Become Very Much A Blur. And Each Album Is Like That. It May Be That There Are Different Locations, It May Take Longer, Shorter, Or Whatever, But It's Always Something That Just Happened.