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

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

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

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.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for galvanizing artists and give them their voice, so therefore for their voice to be heard, they gotta bang more pots on the ceiling, so to speak; they gotta do crazy things just to get recognized. I just feel that whenever you don't give a generation some kind of voice, then expect side effects.