The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

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

I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.

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.