People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong…

I don't eat meat - chicken, fish, none of that. I eat a lot of vegetable sandwiches, like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, whatever I…

— Gza

I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs…

— Gza

I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at and how…

— Gza

Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.

— Gza

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's…

— Gza

When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was…

— Gza

I'm just really, really laid-back-slash-lazy. Last minute with everything.

— Gza

I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.

— Gza

I get inspired by many different things.

— Gza

I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims…

— Gza

I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor

— GZA

Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major…

— Gza

I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or rappers to…

— Gza

It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write.

— Gza

Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me,…

— Gza