Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

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.

You never cared enough to be Black

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.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.