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

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even the actual writing process, but conceptualizing, getting into the songs. That's why I stopped doing mixtapes.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

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