You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible. Read Summary
I'm about being the best. Read Summary
I was a thug. Read Summary
Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. Read Summary
The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us. Read Summary
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. Read Summary
I'm not a centerfold. Read Summary
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that. Read Summary
It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice. Read Summary
The work is the work. The work is not me. Read Summary
I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be. Read Summary
Of course awards matter. Read Summary
I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. Read Summary
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. Read Summary
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. Read Summary
I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.' Read Summary
I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time. Read Summary
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. Read Summary
Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? Read Summary
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. Read Summary