I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

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.

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.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.