If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.