If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

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.

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.