I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.
It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.
I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.
I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.
I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.
I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.
I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?
Success is how you collect your minutes.
I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.