To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.

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.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

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.

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.