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

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.

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

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.

There’s a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it’s not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It’s more frightening than that.

The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn’t come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.