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" There were certain things that grabbed my interest, such as photosynthesis, such as us living off plants and plants living off us. You look at everything in that light - so if I'm looking at ice cubes, I might start thinking about absolute zero, or Fahrenheit and Celsius. There's so much that can make me think about science. "

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Science

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Plants

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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'm constantly writing. "

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Constantly

" 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. "

" I've directed all my videos throughout my whole career, 'cause that's leeway. I was granted that opportunity to be able to do that. "

" 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. "

" Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show. "

" Chess is a game of stimulation. "

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

" Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords. "

" It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write. "

" I like snowboarding, and I like to watch it. "

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Snowboarding

" Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow. It's the same thing, just that one is on hard ground with the wheels, the other is on snow. You just have to know how to maneuver your board and do things you want to do. "

" Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me. "

" Everything is always coming from something else. Even if you create something, it has to be inspired by something else. If you think of Apple and Steve Jobs, he had to be inspired by something that launched the ideas in his head. "

" Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit. "

" Wu-Tang is looked at like the Rolling Stones of hip-hop. "

" 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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Vegetable

Mean

" I remember the first 45 record I bought. It was called 'A Dog a Donut'; it was a breakbeat. Actually, I think I bought two at one time, and the other one was 'Dance to the Drummer's Beat.' Those are breakbeats. I paid a dollar for it, for each one. Your average producer or DJ would know who came out with those. "

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

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

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

" When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was singing and flowing on it. He was right in the pocket. "

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" When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did. "

" It's gonna sound so boring to most people. There have been times when I've been told, 'Oh, you're doing an album about physics? I hope it's not boring.' They don't get the idea. Because rappers are so one-dimensional, so narrow-minded, it comes off corny. "

" 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 played on a 10'x10' chessboard at a hotel in Miami. The pieces were heavy, and I got tired just making a move. Not cool with that. "

" I'm not a sports person, but every now and then, I incorporate sports in my rhymes because I'm always grabbing from certain things and getting inspired by something whether I'm totally involved in it or not. "

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