We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

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