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

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

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

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

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

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

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.