Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.
I moved out to L. A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.
I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.
I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.