I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.