Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

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

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence