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.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

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.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.