I FEEL Like I Am A Real ARTIST And I WANT To Be Able To Feel What I Am Singing About. So When I SING, 'Leave (Get Out),' I Have Been Through That. I Think It Is Just A New Generation, Whether People Are Ready For It Or Not. Teenagers Are Dating.

Questlove Is An Artist Who I Respect Because He Constantly Shifts WITHIN The Idiom, CHALLENGING PERCEPTIONS Of Hip-hop And Black American CULTURE.

I Was A Really Lousy Artist As A Kid. Too Abstract Expressionist; Or I'd Draw A Big RAM's Head, Really MESSY. I'd Never Win PAINTING Contests. I REMEMBER Losing To A GUY Who Did A Perfect Spiderman.

As No MAN Is BORN An ARTIST, So No Man Is Born An Angler.

If You're A Baker, Making Bread, You're A Baker. If You MAKE The Best Bread In The World, You're Not An Artist, But If You Bake The Bread In The GALLERY, You're An Artist. So The CONTEXT Makes The DIFFERENCE.

When You Have An Idea For A Work And When You've FINISHED Your MODEL For It, For The Artist It's Almost Complete, In A WAY. But Then BRINGING It To The Finish Is Really Something You Do For The Audience. It Is ALWAYS Exciting.

An ARTIST MUST CREATE. If She Doesn't, She Will BECOME A Menace To SOCIETY.

A SONG Is Composed Of MUSIC And Lyrics: 50 PERCENT Is The Producer, 50 Percent Is The Artist. So, I'm Responsible For 50 Percent. All I Know Is That I Have To Do My JOB, And I Have To Do It Well. And He Has To Do The Same.

I Think Business Has To Be Stupider. I WANT To Do Really Straightforward, Stupid Business - Just Talk To Me Like A 4-year-old. And I Refuse To Negotiate. I Do Not Negotiate. I Can COLLABORATE. But I'm An ARTIST, So As Soon As You Negotiate, You're Being Compromised.

I'm A Small-time White Kid Trying To Represent Hip-hop. If A Hip-hop ARTIST Comes Up And BEATS Me In A BATTLE, Who Did They Beat? A Small-town White Kid Who Ain't Never Been An MC, Who Ain't Never Done Nothing. Now If An MC Comes To Battle And They Get Beat By A Small-town White BOY, That's MC Suicide.