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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

I'm not really into rap.