It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.