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

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

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

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.