Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.