You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.