I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

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

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.

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.