I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.