When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

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.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.