What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?

I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.

You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.