If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from 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.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

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