I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.

I never want it to be a point where I'm so comfortable that I'm slacking.

If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.

That's always good when you can bring out two sets of fans and supporters and then kinda cross them in between.

Working with Preme is always a dream come true. It's never like "I'm here and I'm comfortable." It's always like that very first time. It's a lot of jokes being cracked and we have a lot of fun.

People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.

For me, when I do a show is to make sure that I gain some new people.

The state of no being, knows neither pleasure nor pain. It is purely divine.

Example is leadership.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.

Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.

God ever geometrizes.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.