Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.