Quotes from Doseone

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.