Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

I loved what Brigitte Bardot represented in the 60's. Definite favourite.

Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times.

I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

Courage only counts when you can count.

Being an entrepreneur is not about the money, its about the freedom.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.