I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.

I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.

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

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.