I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.