I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

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.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to who they want to talk to. But sometimes the heart and the head have to be able to talk and deal with a situation that's evident.

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

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.