With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.

I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Such as the sun, let us love everyone, now feel and behold, the dance of your spirit and joy of your soul.

At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point.

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

uh, yeah, I love...worms" Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.