I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

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.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

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.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.