If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

It's weird how people hate getting older.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person.’ It makes you human.

By letting go we become free to accept what is new.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.