Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

I like to have people around and an environment with constant feedback on what I'm doing.

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.