There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience...

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I am a YouTube artist.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.

I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.

Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with...

People don't really compare me to anybody. They just say I'm a mumble rapper. I'm fine with that. I don't really care.

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact, it's been a...

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

People are animals, man.

Die a Happy Man was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was, This is a career record. I was like, Why do you think that? I think the stars aligned.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a...

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real.

Everybody knows I smoke, drink, and be up in the club, but I don't want that to be my entire thing. I want them to see me get up and go to the gym after a night of clubbing.

I was always freestyling in the projects.

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm...

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.