When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got situations. Even when I get 50 or 60 years old, if God spares my life, if I got false teeth and I'm still rhyming, I have to rhyme about that.

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.

Drake is brilliant.

I'm just saying to all the Canadian people: y'all got talent.

RZA's my brother; we been together for years.

I listen to old music, man.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

There are mad people out there with good beats.

I don't even listen to hip-hop.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

I wasn't really a deep-rooted comic-book dude.

For the most part, Islam is about peace. It's dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we'll fight in the name of Allah. We're not going to let you disrespect our prophet.

Knowledge is infinite. You can go anywhere you want to go based on feeling and emotion. That's one of the things God gave me, being able to pull people into that direction. That's just what I do.

I wasn't into horror movies.

I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.

God is real. You have a lot of prophets, angels; everything is real, you know. You know me - I'm a deep person, so my mind goes really, really deep.

It's like when I look into the depths of things, dealing with my spirituality and the most high, it's serious. It's nothing to play with, nahmean. I try my best to be as humble as I can be.

When you're doing a concept album, it's easy. It's like a movie: you already know what you're dealing with.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

I don't know. I just do what I do, man, and it's a blessing for people to respect what I do.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

You always had a few brothers that was speaking on Islam, like my brother's uncle. It wasn't big in my neighborhood, but with certain brothers, it was big. I respected it because Islam is my home. I found my home when Islam came to me. I've been living with it ever since.

Sometimes I say stuff that people may see things more than what I'm seeing. I just say what God sends me, even if I don't know what I'm talking about or I can't break down the revelation of it. I just take what I receive and put it out there to the people.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

I take life one day at a time.

I got books full of music.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.

I want to see myself as being the king of this: the king of music, man, and everything I lay my hands on.

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I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.

I think when you do things outside of what you're interested in, you meet people and get ideas to bring in to whatever it is you love doing the most.