I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...