Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.