Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.

They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.

L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.