You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

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.

Hip-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.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

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

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.

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.