Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.

When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.