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" I love Paul Simon... his lyrics. "

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" You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad. "

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

" I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan. "

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

" 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. "

" I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism. "

" I have love for the entertainment side of the world. "

" 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. "

" I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. "

" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "

" To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure. "

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

" When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown. "

" In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities. "

" As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie. "

" The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies. "

" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "

" I live a very satisfying life. Not because I've made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that's the American dream: to be at peace at home. "

" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "

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

" When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then. "

" I tell my sons, I say, if you're going somewhere, you don't have to wear a hoodie - we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. "

" If I'm a cop, and every time I see a young black youth - whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out - and they're not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day - things that a man does - you're going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

" It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.' "

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

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

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

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