Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

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

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.