Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

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.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

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