What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Mos DefThat's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
Mos DefI'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'
Mos Def