The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don't like beer that much - though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer.

Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.

If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends.

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn.

I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

You are a human being, not a human body.

If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

Systems die; instincts remain.

I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.