You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

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.

Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.

Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.

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.