The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

I am the epitome of coolness.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."