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

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.