A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

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.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

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

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'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 am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.