I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.