My hope is that very young people in America who have experience with the streets, hip-hop, college, higher learning will fuse all that together. I just want to be the music that can relate to both sides, that stitch together their lives or represents their experiences.

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

America has done a great job making brutally fast, stripped-down cars.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.