El-P Quotes

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

Rap was my drug.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

When I was working on 'Everyday Living,' I was going through a breakup.

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.