“I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.”

Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.

I’m always trying to show versatility. I’m juggling, and I’m flipping fire, and I’m chewing gum and rhyming at the same time… on a unicycle, while playing the drums.

I grew up in that age, and it was memorable. But I’m down with all of it. Chuck D or Danny Brown? I feel comfortable with all of them. Word up, kid! Word up, man!

I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

The ‘Doom’ thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out.

I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can’t predict what you’re going to say next.

Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.

I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.

A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.

I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there’s multiple characters who carry the storyline.

I can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.

We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.