It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

I can sleep. I love sleep; it's my favorite.

I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.