I like Das Racist, and so should you.

Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what's in your head to a medium. That's why I keep doing it.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

Anything that gets to the more emotional and dark side of music, I always enjoy.

Some of the music I made for 'Fantastic Damage' I thought I was making for the Company Flow album, but the majority of it was post-Company Flow.

Atheists are just as obnoxious if not more obnoxious than zealots.

'Meow The Jewels' was a nightmare of a promise I had to fulfill. We made a joke that if the fans gave us $40,000, we would remix our album using nothing but cat sounds.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.

I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

I would have to be traditional and say that my favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

I'm a cat guy. I'm absolutely a cat guy. I grew up with cats.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?

I really only put stuff out when I have something to say and I feel like I've got a direction and I've got an idea - and that can even take two, two-and-a-half years to flesh out.

The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything. I'd say even more so than any other genre of music.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

You can always get something cool out of a collaboration - you can always have a moment - but meeting someone that you want to collaborate with continuously, that's a different thing.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.

My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults when I was a kid probably felt the same way.

I'm a believer in air bags.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.