“It’s not that I’m afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.”

If Heaven is up, I’m going. I know I’m right in my heart. This world is not my home. This life will soon be gone, and, one day, I’ll spread my wings, as an angel, and fly away.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn’t just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock ‘n’ roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I’m your leader.

I’m independent. I use my own money. For everything.

Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it’s the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I expect, I won’t be able to go anywhere. That’s what I’m prepared to do, because my goal is to get my music to the world.

I will never slide, never fall, never fail.

I’m a worldly angel, meaning I’ve adjusted to the ways of the world, even though I am a child of God. I wouldn’t consider myself a Christian rapper, but if we were Christian rappers, we would kill.

I’m the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays – not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

I kept going back while I was writing the novel – which never sold, may it rest in peace – and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.

It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

I wasn’t supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn’t supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering] kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I’m a man playing with the house’s money, and that’s a dangerous man.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.