Quotes about Expression

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

I can't live without mascara and lipstick - every day.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were too mature for my age!

I've always had a maturity within my writing.