People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.
I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.
In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.
What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.
So many kids meet me and they get disappointed. They ask me to wear shades and behave in the way I do in my songs. Then I have to explain it to them that I am like this in real life, more composed, chilled out and cool.
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
I don't even know what my artist name would be. Would it be Logan Paul? Would it just be Logan? I don't know.
I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.
Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.
There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.
I entertain more than just sayin', 'oh that's a female rapper,' or 'oh, that's a rapper,' period.' But, me, I put out music, and when I put it out, I also entertain on Twitter. I entertain on stage. I entertain talking to people.
My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.
When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.
