The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

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

When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that drives me is trying to make them understand that they have to share. So, my art reflects that; the whole reason I do what I do reflects that.

It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.