I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

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.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

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.'

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.