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It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.

Artists are like everybody else.

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.