Quotes from El-P

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what's in your head to a medium. That's why I keep doing it.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I'm a believer in air bags.

I think that Gordon Ramsay is maybe one of the most entertaining people ever on television. And I would love to pretend to be Gordon Ramsay and walk into a restaurant uninvited and attempt to make them change their menu. It's just a personal fantasy of mine.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

I was obsessed with Philip K. Dick.

We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky proposition. In my life, I try to leave the people I encounter with the feeling that they have been respected and treated with warmth and appreciation.

I'm a cat guy. I'm absolutely a cat guy. I grew up with cats.

Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

I don't believe in collaboration necessarily for collaboration's sake, but I will do it, and sometimes it's great.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

I really am not interested in making political music per se. I'm making personal records, but at the same time, I'm very much aware of my surroundings. And those surroundings, what's going on in the larger picture, affects my everyday life and affects the way that I think.

Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

I work on a musician's week, so Monday is Friday. By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don't go out because it's horrible.

If there's any credence to the guy who wrote 'Drones Over Blkyn' a year before drones were flying over Brooklyn, then listen to me: we're going to be in fascist police state.

How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done? When I write about 'Drones over Brooklyn,' it's not like I'm making something up. Drones are policing American cities.

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

My love of Seagal is ridiculous. Like, I love this man. I love how ridiculous he is. I mean, he made an album called 'Songs From The Crystal Cave.'

I literally have a massive database of cat sounds.