I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

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.

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.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.