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When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

I think it's hard to put a finger on my music. My music has always been an amalgamation of everything I listen to, which includes everything and anything under the sun. Hip-hop to country to R&B to pop, all the things I'm inspired by find a way into what I do.

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.