I want to see myself as being the king of this: the king of music, man, and everything I lay my hands on.
— Ghostface Killah
I got books full of music.
I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.
At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.
That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.
It's like when I look into the depths of things, dealing with my spirituality and the most high, it's serious. It's nothing to play with, nahmean. I try my best to be as humble as I can be.
I wasn't into horror movies.
I wasn't really a deep-rooted comic-book dude.
There are mad people out there with good beats.
I listen to old music, man.
Drake is brilliant.
I like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. I would love to do songs with them.
When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.
You know when you walk around in your shoes too much and get a hole in the sole? The rubber is split - it's like your shoes are talking.
You know yourself; you gotta know your seasons. There be certain seasons, it's telepathy.
I was going into a slump during 'Ironman.' I found out I was a diabetic around that time, and I was just stressed out. My mind wasn't all the way there.
Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.
I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.
If you ask me, I think it should be an eye for an eye. On everything.
Sometimes I say stuff that people may see things more than what I'm seeing. I just say what God sends me, even if I don't know what I'm talking about or I can't break down the revelation of it. I just take what I receive and put it out there to the people.
What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.
As long as you respect me, I'm a respect you.
God is real. You have a lot of prophets, angels; everything is real, you know. You know me - I'm a deep person, so my mind goes really, really deep.
Knowledge is infinite. You can go anywhere you want to go based on feeling and emotion. That's one of the things God gave me, being able to pull people into that direction. That's just what I do.
You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.
Sometimes you gotta just chill. You gotta chill your thinking process.
RZA's my brother; we been together for years.
I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.
I am a huge fan of R&B. I love R. Kelly and want to be the person every chick gets with, and 'Ghostdini' is one of the best albums I ever did.
When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss - then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it's time to dumb it down.
Def Jam just made deals with me. They wouldn't let me go because they didn't really have that much street cred. So they kept me around.
If you've got something you want to do, do it right now.
The 'Can It Be' beat was sick!
I'm so spiritual.
You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.
I take life one day at a time.
You always had a few brothers that was speaking on Islam, like my brother's uncle. It wasn't big in my neighborhood, but with certain brothers, it was big. I respected it because Islam is my home. I found my home when Islam came to me. I've been living with it ever since.
I don't know. I just do what I do, man, and it's a blessing for people to respect what I do.
When you're doing a concept album, it's easy. It's like a movie: you already know what you're dealing with.
I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.
For the most part, Islam is about peace. It's dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we'll fight in the name of Allah. We're not going to let you disrespect our prophet.
I don't even listen to hip-hop.
You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.
I'm just saying to all the Canadian people: y'all got talent.
When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got situations. Even when I get 50 or 60 years old, if God spares my life, if I got false teeth and I'm still rhyming, I have to rhyme about that.
At least I try to stay consistent with every album I do.
I don't like Grey Poupon - I like French's.
You gotta know when it's your time. You might wake up one day like, 'Damn, I just feel good,' but you've been feeling like that for a whole month. That's your season.
'The W' was real dark to me. Out of all the Wu-Tang albums, I like the first one and the second one. When 'The W' came into play, and the other ones, I felt they were just thrown together fast. Everyone got their money, and it was just like, 'Whatever, whatever, whatever.' 'The W' was a real dark album.
My favorite on '36 Chambers' gotta be between 'Method Man' and 'Can It Be All So Simple.'
