Hip-hop is my girlfriend, hip-hop is my kid. Hip-Hop fills the void of the things that I don't have. I pay it 101% attention. I don't think I could be as good a father, or as good a husband or anything like that - the way I am as an artist - until I'm not an artist anymore.

Everybody goes to the funeral, but everybody laughs when it's funny. While entertainment is happening, that's just what it is, entertainment - until it crosses over into a whole 'nother situation. And now, me maturing, I look back at a lot of things, pushing forward, some things won't get my attention. Some things don't deserve my energy. I won't put forth so much on things, you got to focus on what's the matter at hand. That's to put out timeless music, and great albums.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.