I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

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.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.