I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.

I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

Nowadays, all the people who are major are just DJs. The lighting and all that makes the show - without all of that stuff, it's just a person behind a laptop. With me, though, it's an actual show.

I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.

People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

Rejection is a challenge.

Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone

Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem.

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.