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

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.