Thundercat

“The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we'd be playing i...”

“When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.”

“I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stere...”

“'Mortal Kombat,' the first arcade one, that soundtrack sounds like a Chick Corea album.”

“Driving around with my dad, growing up, he would play everything: Philip Bailey, Manhattan Transfer, Frank Zappa, Cream. I'd be like, 'Dad, cut this stuff off!' And he'd say, 'No, you're gon...”

“I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.”

“When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don't like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them - I'm making people listen to the 'Final Fantasy' soundtrack, and...”

“You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.”

“A lot of joking stems from a very dark place a bit.”

“No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.”

“I remember playing Billy Cobham's 'Total Eclipse' for Snoop Dogg. I also played him Frank Zappa, 'Apostrophe.' And I played him 'Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast.'”

“If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.”

“My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just...”

“My high school teacher, Reggie Andrews, was a huge factor in my learning my instrument. He didn't play bass, but it was the part where he gave me a knowledgeable perspective of what it was t...”

“I'm left-handed.”

“I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.”

“That will be on my tombstone: He lived five minutes away from Flying Lotus.”

“As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I...”

“It doesn't even feel like racism is real. It just feels like the weirdest ploy, like we're just being had on so many levels. It's even kind of funny when you think about it. A reason not to...”

“Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.”