I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.