I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.