Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.