If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.

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

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

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

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just as good. It's just that everything out of the U.S. proclaims to be the best, especially L.A. and New York, being that they're the nerve centers and media capitals of the most predominantly media-emitting country in the world.