Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.