Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to exp….

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a co….

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do ….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio..

I don't rely on my figure to sell records..

You should never try to make a record and say it's for the radio, you should just make it, and then if it happens to be that, that's what it happens ….

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove i….

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..