The Biggest Weapon Is To Stay Peaceful

I'm Trying To Be Me And Embrace All The Parts Of Me That Have Grown Up, Listened To More Music And Soaked Up More Influences.

For Me There's Insecurity When You're Releasing An Album Because You Spend All Of This Time Working On That One Thing And Then Once It's Done, It's Done. After You Put It Out There To The Public You Never Know Which Songs Are Going To Work Or Even If The Album Is Going To Work As A Whole So There Is A Little Bit Of Nervousness Around Predicting What The Numbers Will Be And If It's Going To Be Well-received.

Hip-hop And R&b Are Especially Fertile Bases Of Collaboration. It Always Makes Good Records And Good Music.

I Feel Like Spirituality Definitely Comes Through In My Music, But I Don't Make Any Specific Efforts To Make It That Way.

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.