My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.
Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.
I could only do music if I could do it the way I could do it. That's what be making me stop, I don't wanna do music in the box.
I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped. There's no time period for it. That's the type of music I want to make.
Because I didn't think anyone would actually listen to my music, I thought I could say whatever I wanted.
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
There are no rules when I compose songs.
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
We just allow anybody to listen to our music. All ages are allowed!
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.
There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.
That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.
A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.
