For my birthday, buy me a politician!

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.

Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?

Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.

Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.