It's not difficult getting into the charts in Sweden. It's a very different musical climate, and in a very good way, I think, because artists like Jose Gonzalez or The Knife can actually get on the charts.
There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.
I think I've been able to witness Canadian hip-hop get a lot more respect from our own people. I think some of the artists that came before me were doing their thing but lacked a strong next generation of artists to help them capitalize.
On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'
I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.
I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.
My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.
I feel like you could listen to any Bon Iver song and it would make you cry. They're all so heart-wrenching.
I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.'
I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.
My dad had a third-grade education in Mexico. Third grade. My mom had a fifth-grade education. They were raised in a poor home... They got married and they had their family, but there's hardly any future.
I've never spoken to Bon Iver, but I would love to. I'm a huge fan!
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
I'm drawn to real-life characters. A lot of the characters I play, I've had in me since second grade. I've been dragging them around my entire life, and then sometimes I marry them with different people. But seldom have I really come up with a new character. In my head it's like, "I'll pull that person out that I've been doing since sixth grade and see where they're at right now.".
I love Bon Iver. I would never put a negative connotation on that man's name!