Inspectah Deck

“When I say, 'Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough,' I'm talking about me, myself - I grew up poor, but we grew up happy as a family.”

“The radio is too soft, anyway. That's why you can hear five songs in a row on the radio, and they'll all sound alike.”

“Me personally, I love women.”

“I'm like a hidden camera. I always have everything under surveillance all the time.”

“I don't make solo albums for the masses and the millions of radio fans out there, I make music for people that see things the way I see it.”

“I got into the art of producing without the samples now. That takes piano lessons and all that.”

“We're always testing our weaponry on each other. It's more of a friendly competition when it's Wu-Tang and you're basically slinging your blade. It's more of a combat, Game of Thrones type thing over there. When it's me and Esoteric, it's more a verbal thing.”

“GZA is graphic and very technical. He talks about air jacks, compressing steel.”

“My first album wasn't even the album that y'all hear as 'Uncontrolled Substance.' It was a totally different album... I had a whole different album.”

“Everybody follows what Twitter says. Everybody follows what Facebook says. Nobody dictates the situation for himself or herself.”

“When you question who's one of the greatest of all time lyrically... I don't sell a lot of records, but it's all good, man. My first solo album sold over 500,000 copies. And my second album - which I put out independently - sold over six figures as well.”

“We live in a world in which you'll be attentive for like thirty seconds and your attention span moves onto the next. So anything is really not much of long-term significance.”

“I only rhymed to certain people. I'd be more likely to just snap on people than do a whole rhyme. But eventually Cappadonna really sat me down and showed me how to put it all down on paper. I owe Cap a lot for that.”

“When we first came out, we had the masks on. Stocking caps and everything on the album cover, so people didn't really know who we were, what we looked like.”

“If I was a young kid in the game I would be studying Wu-Tang.”

“I'm not the most gangsta or the richest dude out there.”

“The Wu-Tang logo is definitely up there with Batman, man, or the actual W-B Warner Brothers.”

“I used to pop and lock. Electric Boogie.”

“For me, Wu-Tang is like the Justice League, the X-Men. And I can play any character I want. It's like I'm more of the Martian Manhunter, I'm like the Vision. I'm on a team with Superman and Iron Man and Batman.”

“RZA had a flood in his apartment. Lost my whole first album.”