Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.