I'm actually a true lyricist.

I feel very open to trying new things.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

The first time my dad ever heard my mixtape it was 'Summer's Eve,' and he was fresh out of jail. And he'd be in jail for like damn near two years.

I didn't want to do music. I was very doubtful. I was like, 'Oh my God. No one wants to hear a teen mom rapper.'

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.

I've been Rico since 10th grade.

It's just amazing being a parent, being a little nervous at first, but then everything falls into place naturally.

Lil Yachty is opening up that lane of being a black weirdo.

I met Yachty through Twitter early 2015.

I feel like what I'm bringing to the table that's different is like not just consistency in the music but consistency in the creativity, consistency in the visuals, in the fashion, participation with the fans and things that I give them and merch and stuff like that. And I'm very active with them.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

I feel like I have a lot of rhythm because I'm from the DMV. Because you got so many different types of music: Baltimore Club music, Go-Go, then you got the DMV rap music scene, then you got the DMV R&B music scene. It's a lot of music and it's a lot of taste that caters to most.

When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build.

Why still be pretty and all that when there's so many girly female rappers already? You can be a rock star instead.

I plan to break the barriers that people try to trap female rappers in. This isn't about 'Oh she sounds good for a female rapper,' it's about 'Yo, she sounds really good on this and can really rap!'

Tierra Whack is very wise.

I wanna be be able to take care of my mom.

It's a lot of women that was before me, it's a lot of women that's gonna come after me!

I feel like I get a variety of people in my crowd. Because of that, there's a nice amount of Hispanic people and Latinos that come to my shows. There's also a really big amount of Black and White people.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Fire is our first form of technology.

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.

I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.