Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.

I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.