When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.

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

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

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 have people who want to pull me into specific projects in the community based on my music and on the mixtapes. It's like, it's the truth but I'm not trying to preach to you. Because who am I to say what's really right or wrong, or whether what I say is going to change anything? I don't take it too seriously; it's really whimsical.