Quotes from Tech N9ne

I have a certain comfort with the darkness now because it's been so relevant in my life for so long, with my mom being sick and finally passing and the people changing as you get bigger and bigger. So 'A Certain Comfort' is about that. You can bring all the evil you want - I'ma make it disappear.

It's difficult to stay relevant for many years, but I've somehow managed to do so. I'm honest and provocative.

I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.

The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his 'Make America Great Again' cap. I would ask him, 'When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?'

My love for music is infinite.

We had a nine-piece choir on 'Aw Yeah.'

I'm inside out. I'm transparent. I'm open for the world to see.

I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.

A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn't, KC Trends would be out of business.

Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain't charge her nothing.

I've been around since 1985. When the Jordan shoe came out.

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

People on YouTube say they don't think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don't think they should mix races. It's gonna always be that, but you can only pray that music can bring everybody together as one.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

Me and Twenty One Pilots would be wonderful.

I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

I feel like I'm Dracula, dude, like, um... Nosferatu, you know.

When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.

Some people like the dark music I do. The dark music is my life; it isn't make believe.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

Guns are going to be here until the end of time; the underworld is going to be here until the end of time. It's just a sad reality that dumb people use them.