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

Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it’s like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

I listen to music to when I’m feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self… When acting, you’re someone else.

It’s hard to see someone with a ‘perfect’ body and be like, ‘Why can’t I be like her?’ But that person was born to be who she is, and you’re born to be who you are.

I’m not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I’m not questioning it.

Time will heal everything.

Whenever I’m out and I hear something, I’m writing. It’s the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.

I’ve always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I’d have to do ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ and ‘Crazy Train,’ and it was a really weird combination.

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy… music is so helpful in that area of life.

I wouldn’t buy somebody’s album on a dare if they called him a musician’s musician. I don’t write to be a writer’s writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.

I don’t think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I’mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I’m still gonna see a check.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I’ve always had to manage both. I couldn’t get a record deal. It wasn’t by choice – I couldn’t get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.

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.