Andre 3000 is at Peace (For Now)

“There’s no easy answer, man. Like Miles said, ‘It takes a long time to sound like yourself.’ ”

I loaded up on music. I can’t remember all the records I got, but one of them was The Blueprint by Jay-Z, which became the soundtrack of that event, of that period, for me. To say that I had mixed feelings about Jay-Z at that point in my career was an understatement. To me he represented much of what was wrong with hip-hop, although I couldn’t have

In this sense, Coltrane’s sound of freedom, his infamous quest for perfection and ceaseless search for the “right sound” is, I think, neither mysterious nor otherworldly—but rather it is, I believe, the actual work of making freedom, grounded in the routine and everyday practice of doing and living.

He is painfully aware of his celebrity. The nature of it and the responsibility that it imposes are constantly on his mind. He remembers people’s names, and greets them by name when he sees them again. He seems to want to prove that he finds other people interesting. “The main thing I have to prevent myself from becoming is disillusioned with trans