I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.