Action Bronson

Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.

Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.