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.

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.

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.

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.