When you're playing in standard tuning all the time, you're sounding pretty...standard.

And I do this all in time to the music

And I always want my product to be what's in my heart, so I'm writing and in the sessions. It sounds like me because I'm there.

I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.

I was in every room: from the writing room to the stage, to the editing room, to the rewrite, and I knew what the original intent always was.

I feel like everything I tried to do is in there.

I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

You used to dealing with basic bitches,
Basic shit all the time.
I'm a new classic, upgrade your status
From a standby to a frequent flyer.

What ever sound that comes to me in the studio, that’s what comes out be it highlife, Afro beat, or Afro-pop.

And after that I always tried to do that with every show and every album, there are no throw-away songs and they must all stand strong

Ayo my crew be deliverin' hot lead when gats I clench, rappers I jack and lynch, nobody could fuck with the way I be killing up shit in rap events

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Everything I have done and experienced gets into the work somehow or another—my childhood, my family life, my grad-school days.