“We just did three albums in a row of shaking our fists in the air and yelling about George W.Bush and the government.”

We try to give the fans a bunch of free stuff, and then have them buy the record. Without buying the record, it doesn’t support your artist.

People who have freaked out as Trump points the blame on Mexicans when you have what you have in Europe.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles.

I didn’t think I was going to have to do three, but the idiot kept getting reelected.

I got my influences from 70s bands – Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah.

No, we have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.

On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I’m back

Trump represents 30 percent of right wing ideology of white scared people.

I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

Art is commenting on what’s going on around you in your life.

It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him.

Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I’ve been vulnerable. I’ve always given parts of me, parts of my life – good, bad, ugly. I’ve never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!

When I’m recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I’m on set, I want to be making music.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for ‘Watch The Throne’.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.