Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.