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

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

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.

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.

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