I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions based on what looks better. Also I write based on what I saw for a video. I obsess over lyrics in the hopes that they'll endure in different ways. I'm very precious about it.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

I just make music based on what I believe.