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At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.

My first album done what it had to do. It introduced me.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.