Macklemore
Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board.Collection: Keys
I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.Collection: Reading
I learned from my teachers but became through my musicCollection: Teacher
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar stringsCollection: Writing
I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.Collection: Spiritual
If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.Collection: Mean
I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.Collection: Spiritual