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" I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all. "

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" I probably take about a month to write a song, depending on how much time I can dedicate to it, and it depends on how many hours a day there are and how many days in a week and weeks in a month. "

" I don't think people have ever really been in touch with science. They're drawn to it, but they don't know why they're drawn to it. For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes. "

" I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At that time, albums didn't have explicit stickers on them, so some of the songs had profanity on them, and I was moved by that. I would listen to those songs, to the flow, and I'd balance it back and forth with the nursery stuff I had. "

" If you hear people talking about the Golden Era of rap, they're usually talking about the early Wu Tang Clan era and then Nas and Biggie and so on. But for me, it goes back to the '80s - 1986 to 1989. "

" I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports. "

" My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties. "

" One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge. "

" Since early childhood, I've been trying to learn all I can. Science is everything; it's not just physics. It's the way of understanding your environment, the world around you. "

" Wu-Tang has opened many doors for hip hop. "

" Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and I learned a lot of those rhymes word for word. "

" A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for 50 percent. All I know is that I have to do my job, and I have to do it well. And he has to do the same. "

" I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think. "

" I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It's ridiculous. There's no substance. It's a hollow shell. "

" Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning. "

" I love nature, and I love information. "

" Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. "

" Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick. "

" 'Liquid Swords' just represents a sharp tongue, sharp words. "

" I get inspired by many different things. "

" Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines. "

" I just listen to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I play music; a lot of times, it will be stuff from back in the day. Sometimes I scan through the radio. Not the average stations that play the everyday thing. "

" I'm just really, really laid-back-slash-lazy. Last minute with everything. "

" Music is forever changing. "

" I'm constantly writing. "

" We've done a lot of shows and a few albums without Dirty. He was a wild and crazy dude. "

" Oh, hip hop is always changing. "

" Wu-Tang has only done, like, three rehearsals throughout our whole career. "