I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.