When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.