Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].