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

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.

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.

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.

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.

For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.

All is well... That's my new philosophy.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.