Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.