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'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

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

You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.