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For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
I pretty much do whatever I want when it comes to music and nothing is off limits to me.
I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.
I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.
Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.