I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

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

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.