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Rap music was and is, for me, everything.
Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.
When that music comes on, I just block everything around me out.
Music is everything to me, and I'm most grateful that it's all working out.
To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.
I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.
Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through that.
Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.
I wanted music to be a career. To base everything on fame to me seemed a dangerous thing - I wanted my foundations to be about improving as a performer and writer. No one could push me into going down that route of being a celebrity singer.
There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.