What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and t….

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way..

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words..

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound..

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper..

I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really make these perfect ….

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your….

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age..

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you..

I've been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it's always how one perceives themselves in the world, as ….

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of chara….

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, p….

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music..

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks..

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element..

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid..

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my consci….

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it..

I MAY NOT BE MUCH ELSE IN THIS WORLD BUT I GUARANTEE YOU I AM GETTING INTO RAPPER HEAVEN..

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't w….

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me..