The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.