In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.