Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.