I Think All Of This—the Roots And

I Don't Have Friends, And It's Hard For Me To Make New Friends. Right Now, The People That Are In My Life Are The People That I Work With.

For Anyone That's Ever Had A Musical Breakthrough In Their Career, It's Always Followed By The Departure Period Right After.

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.

I Think All Of This—the Roots And Djing Included—was Meant To Prepare Me For The Tonight Show.

I Do Count On A Changing Of Tides. All Too Often, What Could Be A Critics' Darling Today Becomes Tomorrow's Target. I Don't Want To Be Too Blasé About It.