As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.

That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more

Young, wild, and free, my whole life ahead of me. So I'm drinking heavily, steadily making memories.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

I don't think we could have given a more honest version of ourselves to the world than we did for ["This Is Mike Stud"].

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

With this project ["This Is Mike Stud"] in general, I tried to put my life on record. All of these things I'm going through right now, I used to dream about and didn't think could ever happen to me.

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the deal contingent that we wouldn't do that.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.