I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.