You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.