It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.