When you're doing a concept album, it's easy. It's like a movie: you already know what you're dealing with.

It's like when I look into the depths of things, dealing with my spirituality and the most high, it's serious. It's nothing to play with, nahmean. I try my best to be as humble as I can be.

God is real. You have a lot of prophets, angels; everything is real, you know. You know me - I'm a deep person, so my mind goes really, really deep.

I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.

I wasn't into horror movies.

Knowledge is infinite. You can go anywhere you want to go based on feeling and emotion. That's one of the things God gave me, being able to pull people into that direction. That's just what I do.

For the most part, Islam is about peace. It's dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we'll fight in the name of Allah. We're not going to let you disrespect our prophet.

I wasn't really a deep-rooted comic-book dude.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

I don't even listen to hip-hop.

There are mad people out there with good beats.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

I listen to old music, man.

RZA's my brother; we been together for years.

I'm just saying to all the Canadian people: y'all got talent.

Drake is brilliant.

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.

When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got situations. Even when I get 50 or 60 years old, if God spares my life, if I got false teeth and I'm still rhyming, I have to rhyme about that.

I am a huge fan of R&B. I love R. Kelly and want to be the person every chick gets with, and 'Ghostdini' is one of the best albums I ever did.

At least I try to stay consistent with every album I do.

When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.

When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss - then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it's time to dumb it down.

I don't like Grey Poupon - I like French's.

You know when you walk around in your shoes too much and get a hole in the sole? The rubber is split - it's like your shoes are talking.