Rza

So I was about 19 when I got my first SP-1200, and on that SP-1200, I made 'Bring The Pain' and a few other classic Wu joints.

I love Paul Simon... his lyrics.

I'm addicted to music.

I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.

I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism.

I've been vegan for over 20 years, but I started as a vegetarian and grew into veganism in between.

I've always believed food, like music, has the power to change our day and even shape our world.

In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

'Grease?' I watch that film over and over.

I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day.

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.

We think it's a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That's one of the greatest things an artist in any field could know: that you've touched the mind of another artist.

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

The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10.

I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, 'Well he did this; he did that.'

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.

If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them.

Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it.

When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.

You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad.

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

An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.

'The Good Earth' is a great book.

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

I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.

The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites.

I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy.

It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.'

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.

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie.

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.

One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis.

I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then.

Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it.

If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop.

My wife and I go to movies every Wednesday.

When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio.

I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently.

I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys.

The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies.

I have love for the entertainment side of the world.

Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don't leave your projects too much. The laundry's there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me.

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

You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life.

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 think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run.