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

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

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

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.