All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

Angel dust won't go away. Somefolks who were smoking it were going away.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.