When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

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

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.