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.

How could I be out there and not do anything?

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.