Fedez

"In the non-choice of Italian politics the best choice is the M5S but by this I do not mean that I believe in conspiracies of chemical trails or mind control as some supporters do. I do not trust Renzi and I would like Napolitano to go and testify at the trial on the State-Mafia negotiations. That's all."

"Now I am a different rapper and I want to distance myself from those who consider me only a product of the hip hop scene."

"I am 25 years old, I have no idea why parents don't understand their children. But I think it's a dog biting its own tail: older people tend to devalue younger people simply because they have a ‘background’ that the young people are creating instead. All new generations are seen as listless and less enterprising, it has always been like that. Or has it?"

"If you're going to be wrong, it's better to do it with your own ideas. Everyone has great prejudices, something dark deep in their soul. I have it towards the ‘children of’. It is possible that there are some who do their job well, but I just can't get past that.."

"It is essential to know who surrounds us. Knowledge is power, it all starts from there. I come from a family that thinks differently from me, which has always been right-wing, but my parents never imposed their ideas on me. That's how I realised that the truth lies in the middle, that factions are dead, and that you have to take action."

"Although I look like a drug dealer, I am very polite in terms of food."

"I have just seen a report ... on the congress of families in Verona, where the people interviewed who attended the congress spoke out on the subject of homosexuality, all stating in the same way that homosexuality is wrong because it is against nature. Making the equation against nature equals wrong. I am always pleasantly surprised to see extremist catholics making this kind of equation."

"(About Matteo Renzi) He is a Berlusconi who didn't make it."

"(Dubai is) Disneyland with corpses under the carpet."

"What a useless martial art karate is. Boy, I am a blue belt in karate. I wasted years of my life learning some completely useless stuff. Like, you punch like this, but who the fuck punches like this? It's just some fun little moves."

"Two events related to clergy sexual abuse have touched the figure of Prevost. The first dates back to the early 2000s, when, as Augustinian provincial in Chicago, he was involved in a case of hospitality to a priest already convicted of paedophilia. The second, more recent, concerns his episcopate in Peru: he allegedly handled an investigation into two priests accused of molestation with little transparency."

"We didn't care about the generation gap, when you make a company you don't care about the age difference but about other things. Not least because I have seen peers who are much less in tune with me than Ax is. Sure, it can be difficult to mix art, friendship and money, but problems only arise when the latter end. The generation gap between us is actually not that big, we complement each other: I am much older than my age and he is younger than his."

"Union makes strength and competition and machismo are counterproductive. For us the union was physiological, we were under the same house, we wanted to go away, we said ‘ok let's do it’, alone it would have been impossible."

"[What if tomorrow they no longer ‘buy’ you?] Everything would change, the vile money changes, success is a pact with the Devil. But we are the first generation to achieve success coming from rap, so we go by trial and error. When I started I didn't have references, there were no artists of our type selling what we sell today. You chose rap out of a need to aggregate, you did rap to express yourself, to not be alone, there was a purity of soul that, it's undeniable, you lose to some extent along the way."