I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.