Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

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

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

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.