I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
QuestloveI've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
QuestloveJay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'
QuestloveHip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
QuestloveI was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.
QuestloveI was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know, I work out. That's another thing I've learned relaxin', sleep, yoga. I didn't know that that's as crucial as going hard, as workin' hard, as exercising hard. I never knew. I thought that, "Okay, I gotta be at the gym like five hours everyday going balls to the wall." And what my yoga instructor, what my trainer, what they're trying to teach me is that, "No, it's sleep." That's important. That's just as important as workin' out.
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