I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.