I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.