Music should be some kind of nourishment.

If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.