“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book smart.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

You may be gone but you’re never over.

You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

Be proud of who you are.

When I say or do something, I do it. I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m doing this for me.

God sent me to piss the world off!

Inside I’ll always be an outsider.

I shoot for the moon but I’m too busy gazing the stars.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Business in the front, Murder in the back,

I just say whatever I want to whoever I want whenever I want wherever I want however I want.

When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.