There's A Certain Confidence That

As A Nation - And As A World - We Need More Truth.

For Me I'm Actually Doing What I Normally Do When I Do My Solo Thing And The Other Thing Is Actually More New To Me.

I Think It's Hard To Really Write A Song That Will Educate Someone Because Songs Are Meant To Be ... You Don't Want To Be Too Didactic In A Song Because It Doesn't Make For Good Music. And I Think The Role Of Songs Can Be To Inspire People But There Needs To Education And Prose To Back That Up.

But In My Mind I've Always Been A Solo Artist- I've Just Been Working With A Lot Of Great People Like Kanye And Alicia Keys And Jay-z.

We Want To Do Things That Are Interesting, Great Storytelling, Some Of It Is Gonna Be More Fun And Funny, Some Of It Is More Serious And Talking About Interesting Issues That We Think Are Provocative And Interesting To Us. Kind Of On A More Political Level. But, You Know, Just Things That We Find Interesting That We Think Stories That Need To Be Told.