I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.

Rza just used the whole synopsis of the karate flick and capitalised offa that around this music. Some things you find out and you compare to yourself, and you're like, 'Wow, it has so much comparison to it', you start to live like that. And that's what happened - we started callin' ourselves Wu-Tang.

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We was just young guys who wanted to change. We got tired of doin' this same everyday bullshit that we was doin', and we all felt like we had dreams o' bein' a big star. You know, as far as with myself, I never really took it that serious as bein' a star. I only took it that serious as bein' a emcee, which is two different things. You know what I mean?

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.