People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.

I'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!'

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.