I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

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

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

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.