A biography for The-Dreamhasn’t been written yet.
“What I want to do is to create a conversation piece and something people remember. I want to make it repetitive enough but not use what I call 'thin thinking' - the kind of thing anyone can do. A hook tells me what you are talking about and it doesn't have to be a lot of words.”
“At the end of the day, I'm a songwriter.”
“I am human, and people fall in and out of love all the time.”
“One thing is relationships: Don't get in a relationship if you're going to leave a man if he cheats on you. Because 99% of the time he's going to cheat.”
“Some of the time, I am competing with myself.”
“My days, sometimes, it's just about work. I'm not thinking about taking a picture in the studio, and I don't have the time to stop being creative to stop and post on Instagram. That's not a part of my creative process.”
“Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I'm touched in that way that I can't explain.”
“Life gets you hurt. Love didn't do it. Life does it.”
“You don't need a band to do hip-hop; you only need a DJ.”
“You can't just keep stacking up things and not go and live.”
“Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.”
“My grandfather would go to work at 6 A.M.”
“Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.”
“I've always had a soft spot for women because of my mom. Just their power.”
“Earlier in my career I had so much to prove.”
“I've never lied on a record.”
“My influence is everywhere. You know when you're touching people.”
“If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.”
“I listen to Sinatra way more than a person my age probably should.”
“Money affects everything, from who I'm with to what label I'm on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn't understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.”