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" I was definitely a big Run-DMC fan. "

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" My wife and I go to movies every Wednesday. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The black community has for a long time been a part of the Hollywood community, and of course we would love to have a more proportionate ratio of films that tell our stories. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "

" I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy. "

" 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. "

" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "

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

" We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad. "

" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "

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

" I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed. "

" The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites. "

" 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. "

" Wisdom is important in every man's life. "

" 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. "

" Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. "

" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "

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

" Everybody wants to be a good fighter. "

" While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want. "

" 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. "