With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age.