When I Look Around The World And

I Guess I Just Look At Talent As A Very Subjective Thing. I Mean, If You Never Tried Playing An Oboe, How Do You Know You're Not The Most Talented Oboe Player Ever? The Point Is That If You Don't Love It, Then It Doesn't Matter.

In Nature, If A Cell Gets Too Big, It Divides. You Can't Come Up With A Set Of Rules That's Going To Work For 350 Million People. You're Just Not.

A Big Part Of Making An Album Is That You Want To Have Enough Material - You Want To Have Enough Stuff For People To Hear And Know That It Represents You. So It Does Sometimes Turn Into A Situation Where You're Saying To The Person You're Working With, "well, What Do You Want?" But Then There Are Other Times When I Work With People And They'll Turn To Me And Say, "how Do You Want To Do This?" And That's Actually When I Work Best.

Ego Is Something That Everybody, Creative Especially, Has To Grapple With. You Need Enough Ego To Keep Going But Not So Much Ego That You're Deaf Or Blind, That You're Making A Mistake And Can't Fix The Course.

Traffic Is About Drugs. As Detailed A Portrait As I Can Muster About What Is Happening In The Drug World, From Top To Bottom, From Policy To How Things Move On The Street.