I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives, compared with authentic martyrs, of no account.

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

Chess is most certainly not my life.