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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

I'm writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

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I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

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