"I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now."

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Source : Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

El-P

#What Matters Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.”
“Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.
“Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.”
“I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of selfâ€”evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the â€˜instantly availableâ€™.”
“Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.”
“In the old days talks would have made me angry. But now that I've come out, everyone knows the truth. That's like a protective shield against comments like that. Stupid remarks and jokes no longer hurt me, because I can stand by being gay. Nowadays I can even laugh at jokes about gays. Now I feel free, hungry and strong.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.”
“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

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