When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

The further I get, the further I want to go