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" I don't have the same respect for time as most people. I take that extra day to think about it. "

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" I actually have eyes that irritate easily, so I wear the glasses to keep stuff out of my eyes. If you see me in shades indoors, you might be like, 'RZA is wearing shades inside. What the hell is going on?' I'm protecting my eyes, and I'm looking cool. "

" I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys. "

" Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that. "

" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "

" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "

" I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me? "

" I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped. "

" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "

" Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it. "

" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "

" I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people. "

" I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer. "

" I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent. "

" When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves. "

" An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art. "

" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "

" I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently. "

" If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people. "

" Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. "

" Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it. "

" When Def Jam wanted to sign Method Man, they wanted to sign Method Man and Old Dirty. And Old Dirty wanted to be on Def Jam - everybody, that was like the dream label. But if I had Old Dirty and Method Man on Def Jam, that's two key pieces going in the same direction, whereas there's other labels that needed to be infiltrated. "

" I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight. "

" I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day's work, I can read a few verses. "

" The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities. "

" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "

" I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination. "

" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "

" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "