Quotes

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.

I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.

I like golden-era hip-hop because they were recording on a 2-inch tape. There was dirty, raw sampling. It's nasty. It has a vibe to it.

I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.

I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians - they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.

I'd never record digitally. It's not because its' a horrible way to record, it's just not the best way to record my music, because my music is rawer, darker and a little more nostalgic.

My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.

People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.

I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.

I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.

I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing, sometimes it's writing, recording, and mixing. It all depends on what is necessary that day.

I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always upping my own bar.

People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.