I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

No one chooses to raise children alone.

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.