I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.