Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.

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.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.