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" Our love of kung fu goes back to the Bruce Lee days in the 1970s. Outside the action, we loved the interesting, heartfelt stories and the dialogue. It was RZA's idea to draw all that in there as samples. "

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" When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids. "

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" Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is metal a conductor of electricity, and wood is not, but you're more likely to be struck by lightning when standing under a tree? These are questions that require science to answer. "

" 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. "

" Oh, hip hop is always changing. "

" I'm always touching plants and vibing with them. "

" To write a story is to create a world of your own. "

" I drink a lot of juice. "

" I get inspired by many different things. "

" I like broccoli. I like rice. I like carrots. I like vegetable juices. Y'know? I mean, I'm with all that. "

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" I think every being in the universe is connected somehow. "

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

" Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the '60s. "

" I'm a late-night person who likes to eat a lot of breakfast stuff at night. "

" Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.' "

" 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. "

" Some MCs don't take the time to take a beat home or just vibe with it and just figure out, 'How do I attack this track?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think all artists want that plaque, whether it's Gold or Platinum or multi-platinum. I think we all look forward to getting a plaque and hanging it on your wall and having something to show for the music that you've created. "

" 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 usually do about five drafts per rhyme for each song. "

" As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's better to be that way. "

" As you grow and get older, you evolve. "

" I love nature, and I love information. "

" 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. "

" Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major role in a lot of music we were doing. "

" You are like a sponge when you are young. "

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" Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me, that's good music. "

" I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from. "

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