When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.