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

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

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.

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.

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