Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.

Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.