I really am not interested in making political music per se. I’m making personal records, but at the same time, I’m very much aware of my surroundings. And those surroundings, what’s going on in the larger picture, affects my everyday life and affects the way that I think. El-P Read Quote
The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat. El-P Read Quote
I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn’t mean much if you don’t have a solid foundation in what you’re experimenting with. You can’t really deviate from music unless you know music; it’s not gonna work. El-P Read Quote
Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. El-P Read Quote
Meow The Jewels’ was a nightmare of a promise I had to fulfill. We made a joke that if the fans gave us $40,000, we would remix our album using nothing but cat sounds. El-P Read Quote
The bravest artists I’ve ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke. El-P Read Quote
I’m really pretty ridiculous about how much I work on my music, and I don’t look at it as necessarily a good quality. I look at it as a side effect of my apparent insanity. It is what it is, man. El-P Read Quote
