Quotes from El-P

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

I'm a cat guy. I'm absolutely a cat guy. I grew up with cats.

Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything. I'd say even more so than any other genre of music.

I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.