“The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in f...” — J. Cole Quote

“The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.”

“I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.”

“I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.”

“Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.”

“I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.”

“I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.”

“We never enter the studio unless we feel like, right now, if these are the songs we record, that we would have an album that we're proud of and we're excited about. And we put everything under the microscope and examine it the best we can to make sure that we're prepared.”

“I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.”

“Schizophrenia' was the first real production of the Cogumelo label. They put everything they had into it. The original album had a gatefold with a huge picture of us when you opened the album.”

“People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!”

“I don't think you are ever prepared for success with bands like Simple Minds and U2. It wasn't until your fourth or fifth album that you really got that big-league success. It doesn't happen overnight, so you get used to it.”

“I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.”