I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

When I was little, when I was a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV and just say what the TV says. It's how I got good at imitating people.

I'll always regret how I recorded 'Burgundy' 'cause it's not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.

My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff. Physical objects. The world and the trees and the sunshine and the flowers. And all of that doesn't seem to really exist out in the ether of the Internet.

Yes, DVDs are gone, but there is this wonderful Internet platform out there called YouTube.