Ski Mask the Slump God Quotes

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

There's been a progression in my sound.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

The way I evolved was playing straight-ahead jazz into playing more fusion-type stuff just because I was young enough to get into it. As I get older, I find myself coming back to where I kind of started.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

Even on tour, where I perform songs from 'City Of Black And White,' I still do songs from 'Nothing Left To Lose.' I never turned my back on that material. On some albums, you change - that's all. The trick is to follow your heart and do what feels right.

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

As I'm growing, so is my music.

I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and I'm feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that's very nice is to see how I've grown up a little bit. A little bit.

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

What I love about each album is the opportunity to expand on what we've done in the past - to push myself and the band creatively, vocally, and lyrically.

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of, 'Who the hell is he?' And then there was 'The Road To Hell' stuff, and now there's the blues stuff.

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.

Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.