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.

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

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

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

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

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.

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