Thundercat

“I love Drake's music.”

“My whole being sonically comes from my dad's understanding of music.”

“At the start of high school, I looked like a girl... to a very major degree. I had really long hair and a really round face with no facial hair. And I went to a very rough high school.”

“From when I was a kid, I was always very quiet within myself, I was never attention-hungry.”

“Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.”

“I try not to think too hard about music. I like to see where it goes. I try not to give it a direction. I figure out what it is as it's forming. I don't have any goal in mind other than to make the best music I can.”

“My theory is if Tony Williams can sing, and if Kanye West can sing, so can I! So I try!”

“I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.”

“I was playing bass when I was a kid; I play bass now. I used to draw pictures when I was a kid, and I draw pictures now. I talked backwards and weird when I was a kid, and I talk backwards now.”

“Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.”

“I don't play with toys anymore. I mean, I do play with toys, but not like when I was a kid. I don't crash cars into each other, but now I collect certain toys.”

“I feel like there are things that inspire the music, and then there's the music itself. I don't feel like I always need to force them together.”

“As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.”

“I'm so tired of cell phones.”

“If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.”

“That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.”

“Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.”

“Heartbreak is a real thing.”

“No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.”

“I'm left-handed.”