Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Movies portray men as tough guys.