Rza

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

That movie 'Hellraiser 2' - to me, that was the most evilest display of evil I've ever seen. I watched that movie ten times because I couldn't believe that each character became more evil than the other.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.

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

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

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.

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

I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets.

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

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

I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day's work, I can read a few verses.