The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos.

As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

The press has not done a fair job of exposing his [Bernie Sanders] policy. He has not had the television time that he deserves or that Hillary Clinton has. He has not had the ability to connect with black people in the mass way.

I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.

Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me," as much as it's like, "I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid."